1"Say to your brothers, 'My people!' and to your sisters, 'My loved one!'

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1 Peter 2:10, 1 Peter 2:10, Hosea 2:23, Hosea 2:23, Ezekiel 11:20

2Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

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Isaiah 50:1, Isaiah 50:1, Ezekiel 23:45, Jeremiah 3:13, Ezekiel 23:45

3Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.

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Ezekiel 16:22, Ezekiel 16:22, Isaiah 32:13, Isaiah 32:14, Isaiah 32:13

4Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; for they are children of unfaithfulness;

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Jeremiah 13:14, Ezekiel 8:18, Hosea 1:2, Hosea 1:6, Jeremiah 13:14

5For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said, 'I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.'

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Jeremiah 44:17, Jeremiah 44:18, Isaiah 1:21, Hosea 2:8, Hosea 3:1

6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can't find her way.

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Job 19:8, Job 19:8, Lamentations 3:7, Lamentations 3:9, Job 3:23

7She will follow after her lovers, but she won't overtake them; and she will seek them, but won't find them. Then she will say, 'I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.'

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Jeremiah 2:2, Jeremiah 2:2, Hosea 5:13, Hosea 5:13, Luke 15:17

8For she did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

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Isaiah 1:3, Isaiah 1:3, Hosea 8:4, Hosea 13:2, Hosea 4:11

9Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.

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Haggai 1:6, Haggai 1:11, Malachi 1:4, Malachi 3:18, Hosea 2:3

10Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand.

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Ezekiel 23:29, Ezekiel 23:29, Hosea 5:13, Hosea 5:14, Jeremiah 13:22

11I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.

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Isaiah 1:13, Isaiah 1:14, Isaiah 1:13, Isaiah 1:14, Amos 5:21

12I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, 'These are my wages that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest,' and the animals of the field shall eat them.

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Isaiah 7:23, Isaiah 5:5, Isaiah 7:23, Isaiah 5:5, Hosea 13:8

13I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me," says the Lord.

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Judges 3:7, Hosea 13:6, Judges 3:7, Hosea 13:6, Hosea 13:1

14"Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.

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Isaiah 40:1, Isaiah 40:2, Isaiah 40:1, Isaiah 40:2, Ezekiel 20:35

15I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

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Ezekiel 28:26, Jeremiah 2:2, Ezekiel 28:26, Jeremiah 2:2, Hosea 11:1

16It will be in that day," says the Lord, "that you will call me 'my husband,' and no longer call me 'my master.'

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Isaiah 54:5, Isaiah 54:5, Hosea 2:7, Hosea 2:7, Jeremiah 3:14

17For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by name.

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Exodus 23:13, Exodus 23:13, Psalms 16:4, Joshua 23:7, Psalms 16:4

18In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, and will make them lie down safely.

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Ezekiel 34:25, Ezekiel 34:25, Ezekiel 39:9, Ezekiel 39:10, Ezekiel 39:9

19I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.

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2 Corinthians 11:2, 2 Corinthians 11:2, Revelation 21:2, Revelation 21:2, Isaiah 54:14

20I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know the Lord.

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John 17:3, 1 John 5:20, John 17:3, 1 John 5:20, 1 John 4:6

21It will happen in that day, I will respond," says the Lord, "I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth;

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Zechariah 8:12, Zechariah 8:12, Matthew 6:33, Matthew 6:33, Isaiah 65:24

22and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; and they will respond to Jezreel.

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Hosea 1:4, Joel 2:19, Hosea 1:11, Hosea 1:4, Joel 2:19

23I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, 'You are my people;' and they will say, 'My God!'"

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Romans 9:25, Romans 9:26, Romans 9:25, Romans 9:26, 1 Peter 2:9