Hosea 2:1-13 NKJV


Hosea 2:1-13 Say to your brethren, 'My people,' And to your sisters, 'Mercy is shown.'

"Bring charges against your mother, bring charges; For she is not My wife, nor am I her Husband! Let her put away her harlotries from her sight, And her adulteries from between her breasts;

Lest I strip her naked and expose her, as in the day she was born, And make her like a wilderness, And set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

"I will not have mercy on her children, For they are the children of harlotry.

For their mother has played the harlot; She who conceived them has behaved shamefully, For she said, 'I will go after my lovers, Who give me my bread and my water, My wool and my linen, My oil and my drink.'

"Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, And wall her in, So that she cannot find her paths.

She will chase her lovers, But not overtaken them; Yes, she will seek them, but not find them. Then she will say, 'I will go and return to my first husband, For then it was better for me than now.'

For she did not know That I gave her grain, new wine, and oil, And multiplied her silver and gold-- Which they prepared for Baal.

"Therefore I will return and take away My grain in its time And My new wine in its season, And will take back My wool and My linen, Given to cover her nakedness.

Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, And no one shall deliver her from My hand.

I will also cause all her mirth to cease, Her feast days, Her New Moons, Her Sabbaths-- All her appointed feasts.

"And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, Of which she has said, "These are my wages that my lovers have given me.' So I will make them a forest, And the beasts of the field shall eat them.

I will punish her For the days of the Baals to which she burned incense. She decked herself with her earrings and jewelry. And went after her lovers; But Me she forgot," says the LORD.

Isaiah 50:1-3 Thus says the LORD; "Where is the certificate of your mother's divorce, Whom I have put away? Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you? For your iniquities you have sold yourselves, And for your transgressions your mother has been put away.

Why, when I came, was there no man? Why, when I called, was there none to answer? Is My hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Indeed with My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; Their fish stink because there is no water, And die of thirst.

I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering."

John 8:39-42 They answered and said to Him, "Abraham is our father." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's  children, you would do the works of Abraham.

"But now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has told you the truth which I heard from God, Abraham did not do this.

"You do the deeds of your father." Then they said to Him, "We were not born of fornication; we have one Father--God."

Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me.