The Degenerate City

21 (A)How the faithful city has become a [a]harlot!
It was full of justice;
Righteousness lodged in it,
But now (B)murderers.

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  1. Isaiah 1:21 Unfaithful

Also behind the doors and their posts
You have set up your remembrance;
For you have uncovered yourself to those other than Me,
And have gone up to them;
You have enlarged your bed
And [a]made a covenant with them;
(A)You have loved their bed,
Where you saw their [b]nudity.

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  1. Isaiah 57:8 Lit. cut
  2. Isaiah 57:8 Lit. hand, a euphemism

20 “For of old I have (A)broken your yoke and burst your bonds;
And (B)you said, ‘I will not [a]transgress,’
When (C)on every high hill and under every green tree
You lay down, (D)playing the harlot.

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  1. Jeremiah 2:20 Kt. serve

“Lift up your eyes to (A)the desolate heights and see:
Where have you not [a]lain with men?
(B)By the road you have sat for them
Like an Arabian in the wilderness;
(C)And you have polluted the land
With your harlotries and your wickedness.

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  1. Jeremiah 3:2 Kt. been violated

A Call to Repentance

The Lord said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: “Have you seen what (A)backsliding Israel has done? She has (B)gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there played the harlot.

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20 Surely, as a wife treacherously departs from her [a]husband,
So (A)have you dealt treacherously with Me,
O house of Israel,” says the Lord.

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  1. Jeremiah 3:20 Lit. companion

The Younger Sister, Jerusalem

11 “Now (A)although her sister Oholibah saw this, (B)she became more corrupt in her lust than she, and in her harlotry more corrupt than her sister’s harlotry.

12 “She lusted for the neighboring (C)Assyrians,
(D)Captains and rulers,
Clothed most gorgeously,
Horsemen riding on horses,
All of them desirable young men.
13 Then I saw that she was defiled;
Both took the same way.
14 But she increased her harlotry;
She looked at men portrayed on the wall,
Images of (E)Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion,
15 Girded with belts around their waists,
Flowing turbans on their heads,
All of them looking like captains,
In the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea,
The land of their nativity.
16 (F)As soon as her eyes saw them,
She lusted for them
And sent (G)messengers to them in Chaldea.

17 “Then the [a]Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love,
And they defiled her with their immorality;
So she was defiled by them, (H)and alienated herself from them.
18 She revealed her harlotry and uncovered her nakedness.
Then (I)I (J)alienated Myself from her,
As I had alienated Myself from her sister.

19 “Yet she multiplied her harlotry
In calling to remembrance the days of her youth,
(K)When she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
20 For she lusted for her [b]paramours,
Whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys,
And whose issue is like the issue of horses.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 23:17 Lit. sons of Babel
  2. Ezekiel 23:20 Illicit lovers

The Family of Hosea

When the Lord began to speak by Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea:

(A)“Go, take yourself a wife of harlotry
And children of harlotry,
For (B)the land has committed great [a]harlotry
By departing from the Lord.”

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 1:2 Spiritual adultery

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