2 Kings 16:7

2 Kings 15 2 Kings 17

2 Kings 16:7 New International Version (NIV)

⁷Ahaz sent messengers to say to Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria, “I am your servant and vassal. Come up and save me out of the hand of the king of Aram and of the king of Israel, who are attacking me.”

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Isaiah 1:21

Song of Songs 8 Isaiah 2

Isaiah 1:21 New International Version (NIV)

²¹See how the faithful city
    has become a prostitute!
She once was full of justice;
    righteousness used to dwell in her—
    but now murderers!

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Jeremiah 2:20

Jeremiah 1 Jeremiah 3

Jeremiah 2:20 New International Version (NIV)

²⁰“Long ago you broke off your yoke
    and tore off your bonds;
    you said, ‘I will not serve you!’
Indeed, on every high hill
    and under every spreading tree
    you lay down as a prostitute.

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Jeremiah 2:25

Jeremiah 1 Jeremiah 3

Jeremiah 2:25 New International Version (NIV)

²⁵Do not run until your feet are bare
    and your throat is dry.
But you said, ‘It’s no use!
    I love foreign gods,
    and I must go after them.’

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Jeremiah 4:30

Jeremiah 3 Jeremiah 5

Jeremiah 4:30 New International Version (NIV)

³⁰What are you doing, you devastated one?
    Why dress yourself in scarlet
    and put on jewels of gold?
Why highlight your eyes with makeup?
    You adorn yourself in vain.
Your lovers despise you;
    they want to kill you.

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Lamentations 1:2

Jeremiah 52 Lamentations 2

Lamentations 1:2 New International Version (NIV)

²Bitterly she weeps at night,
    tears are on her cheeks.
Among all her lovers
    there is no one to comfort her.
All her friends have betrayed her;
    they have become her enemies.

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Ezekiel 16:26

Ezekiel 15 Ezekiel 17

Ezekiel 16:26 New International Version (NIV)

²⁶You engaged in prostitution with the Egyptians, your neighbors with large genitals, and aroused my anger with your increasing promiscuity.

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Ezekiel 16:29

Ezekiel 15 Ezekiel 17

Ezekiel 16:29 New International Version (NIV)

²⁹Then you increased your promiscuity to include Babylonia,^[a] a land of merchants, but even with this you were not satisfied.

Footnotes:

Ezekiel 16:29 Or Chaldea

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Hosea 2:5

Hosea 1 Hosea 3

Hosea 2:5 New International Version (NIV)

⁵Their mother has been unfaithful
    and has conceived them in disgrace.
She said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
    who give me my food and my water,
    my wool and my linen, my olive oil and my drink.’

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Hosea 2:12

Hosea 1 Hosea 3

Hosea 2:12 New International Version (NIV)

¹²I will ruin her vines and her fig trees,
which she said were her pay from her lovers;
I will make them a thicket,
and wild animals will devour them.

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Hosea 3:1

Hosea 2 Hosea 4

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Hosea’s Reconciliation With His Wife

3 The Lord said to me, “Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.”