✦ Ezekiel 23:17 Old Testament
Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. But after she had been defiled by them, she turned away in disgust.
✦ Ezekiel 23:20 Old Testament
and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.
✦ Ezekiel 23:22 Old Testament
Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will incite your lovers against you, those from whom you turned away in disgust. And I will bring them against you from every side—
✦ Ezekiel 33:31 Old Testament
So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain.
✦ Ezekiel 33:32 Old Testament
Indeed, you are to them like a singer of love songs with a beautiful voice, who skillfully plays an instrument. They hear your words but do not put them into practice.
✦ Daniel 9:4 Old Testament
And I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed, “O, Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of loving devotion to those who love Him and keep His commandments,
✦ Hosea 2:1 Old Testament
“Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’
✦ Hosea 2:5 Old Testament
For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’
✦ Hosea 2:7 Old Testament
She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will return to my first husband, for then I was better off than now.’
✦ Hosea 2:10 Old Testament
And then I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of My hands.
✦ Hosea 2:12 Old Testament
I will destroy her vines and fig trees, which she thinks are the wages paid by her lovers. So I will make them into a thicket, and the beasts of the field will devour them.
✦ Hosea 2:13 Old Testament
I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.
✦ Hosea 3:1 Old Testament
Then the LORD said to me, “Go show love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and offer raisin cakes to idols.”
✦ Hosea 4:18 Old Testament
When their liquor is gone, they turn to prostitution; their rulers dearly love disgrace.
✦ Hosea 8:9 Old Testament
For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.
✦ Hosea 9:1 Old Testament
Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.
✦ Hosea 9:10 Old Testament
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved.
✦ Hosea 9:15 Old Testament
All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them from My house for the wickedness of their deeds. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.
✦ Hosea 10:11 Old Testament
Ephraim is a well-trained heifer that loves to thresh; but I will place a yoke on her fair neck. I will harness Ephraim, Judah will plow, and Jacob will break the hard ground.
✦ Hosea 11:1 Old Testament
When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.
✦ Hosea 11:4 Old Testament
I led them with cords of kindness, with ropes of love; I lifted the yoke from their necks and bent down to feed them.
✦ Hosea 12:6 Old Testament
But you must return to your God, maintaining love and justice, and always waiting on your God.
✦ Hosea 12:7 Old Testament
A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.
✦ Hosea 14:4 Old Testament
I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.
✦ Amos 4:5 Old Testament
Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do,” declares the Lord GOD.