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For their mother hath played the harloty: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that givez me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my γdrink.

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Isa. 1:21• ²¹How is the faithful city become a harlot! she that was full of judgment, righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers. (Isa. 1:21)

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Jer. 3:1‑9• ¹{i}They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? Would not that land be utterly polluted? But thou hast committed fornication with many lovers; yet return to me, saith Jehovah.{/i}
²{i}Lift up thine eyes unto the heights and see, where hast thou not been lain with? In the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arab in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy fornications and with thy wickedness.{/i}
³{i}And the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; but thou hast a harlot's forehead, thou refusest to be ashamed.{/i}
⁴{i}Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?{/i}
⁵{i}Will he keep his anger for ever? Will he preserve it perpetually? Behold, thou hast spoken and hast done evil things, and thou art so determined.{/i}
⁶{i}And Jehovah said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen what backsliding Israel hath done? She hath gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath committed fornication.{/i}
⁷{i}And I said, After she hath done all these things, she will return unto me; but she returned not. And her sister Judah, the treacherous, saw it.{/i}
⁸{i}And I saw that when for all the causes wherein backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce, yet the treacherous Judah, her sister, feared not, but went and committed fornication also.{/i}
⁹{i}And it came to pass through the lightness of her fornication that she polluted the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.{/i} (Jer. 3:1‑9)

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Jer. 44:17• ¹⁷But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven , and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil. (Jer. 44:17)

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their mother.

Hos. 2:2• ²Plead with your mother. Plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, {i}and her adulteries from between her breasts;{/i} (Hos. 2:2)

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Hos. 3:1• ¹Then said Jehovah unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress according to the love of Jehovah toward the sons of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of grapes. (Hos. 3:1)

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Hos. 4:5,12‑15• ⁵Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.
¹²My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of lewdness hath caused them to err, and they have gone lewdly from under their God.
¹³They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and offer incense on the hills, under the oak and the poplar and the terebinth, because their shade is good therefore your daughters commit lewdness, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery:
¹⁴I will not punish your daughters when they commit lewdness, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery; for they themselves go aside with harlots, and sacrifice with prostitutes: therefore the people not understanding shall be cast headlong.
¹⁵Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear, Jehovah liveth! (Hos. 4:5,12‑15)

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Isa. 1:21• ²¹How is the faithful city become a harlot! she that was full of judgment, righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers. (Isa. 1:21)

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Isa. 50:1• ¹Thus saith Jehovah, Where [is] the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors [is it] to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away. (Isa. 50:1)

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Jer. 2:20,25• ²⁰{i}For of old thou hast broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not serve. For upon every high hill, and under every green tree, thou bowest down, playing the harlot.{/i}
²⁵{i}Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst. But thou saidst, There is no hope; no, for I love strangers, and after them will I go.{/i} (Jer. 2:20,25)

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Jer. 3:1‑9• ¹{i}They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? Would not that land be utterly polluted? But thou hast committed fornication with many lovers; yet return to me, saith Jehovah.{/i}
²{i}Lift up thine eyes unto the heights and see, where hast thou not been lain with? In the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arab in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy fornications and with thy wickedness.{/i}
³{i}And the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; but thou hast a harlot's forehead, thou refusest to be ashamed.{/i}
⁴{i}Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?{/i}
⁵{i}Will he keep his anger for ever? Will he preserve it perpetually? Behold, thou hast spoken and hast done evil things, and thou art so determined.{/i}
⁶{i}And Jehovah said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen what backsliding Israel hath done? She hath gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath committed fornication.{/i}
⁷{i}And I said, After she hath done all these things, she will return unto me; but she returned not. And her sister Judah, the treacherous, saw it.{/i}
⁸{i}And I saw that when for all the causes wherein backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce, yet the treacherous Judah, her sister, feared not, but went and committed fornication also.{/i}
⁹{i}And it came to pass through the lightness of her fornication that she polluted the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.{/i} (Jer. 3:1‑9)

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Ezek. 16:15‑16• ¹⁵But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown. {i}and pouredst out thy whoredoms on every one that passed by: his it was.{/i}
¹⁶And of thy garments thou didst take and make for thyself high places with divers colours, {i}and didst play the harlot thereupon: the like hath not come to pass, and shall be no more.{/i} (Ezek. 16:15‑16)

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Ezek. 16:28‑34• ²⁸{i}And thou didst commit fornication with the Assyrians, because thou wast insatiable; yea, thou didst commit fornication with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.{/i}
²⁹{i}And thou didst multiply thy whoredom with the land of merchants, Chaldea, and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.{/i}
³⁰How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord, Jehovah, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;
³¹in that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;
³²but as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!
³³They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.
³⁴And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms; and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary. (Ezek. 16:28‑34)

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Ezek. 23:5‑11• ⁵{i}And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians her neighbours,{/i}
⁶{i}clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them attractive young men, horsemen riding upon horses.{/i}
⁷{i}And she bestowed her whoredoms upon them, all of them the choice of the children of Asshur; and with all after whom she lusted, with all their idols she defiled herself.{/i}
⁸{i}Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt; for in her youth they had lain with her, and had handled the breasts of her virginity, and poured their fornication upon her.{/i}
⁹{i}Therefore I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the children of Asshur, after whom she lusted.{/i}
¹⁰{i}These discovered her nakedness, they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword; and she became a name among women; and they executed judgment upon her.{/i}
¹¹{i}And her sister Oholibah saw this, and{/i} was more corrupt in her inordinate love than {i}she, and in her fornications more than{/i} {i}the whoredoms of her sister.{/i} (Ezek. 23:5‑11)

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Rev. 2:20‑23• ²⁰But I have against thee that thou lettest alone the woman Jezebel that calleth herself a prophetess; and she teacheth and deceiveth my servants to commit fornication and to eat things sacrificed to idols.
²¹And I gave her space to repent, and she willeth not to repent of her fornication.
²²Behold, I cast her into a bed, and those that commit fornication with her into great tribulation, except they repent of her works.
²³And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he that searcheth reins and hearts; and I will give you each according to your works. (Rev. 2:20‑23)

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Rev. 17:1‑5• ¹And there came one of the seven angels that had the seven bowls, and spoke with me, saying, Come hither; I will show thee the judgment of the great harlot that sitteth on [the] many waters;
²with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and those that inhabit the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
³And he carried me away in {i}the{/i} Spirit into a wilderness; and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet beast full of [the] names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
⁴And the woman was clothed with purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the unclean things of her fornication,
⁵and upon her forehead a name written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. (Rev. 17:1‑5)

hath done.

Hos. 9:10• ¹⁰I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at her first time: but they went to Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved. (Hos. 9:10)

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Ezra 9:6‑7• ⁶and said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
⁷Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day. (Ezra 9:6‑7)

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Jer. 2:26‑27• ²⁶{i}As a thief is ashamed when he is found, so shall the house of Israel be ashamed—they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets—{/i}
²⁷{i}saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth; for they have turned the back unto me, and not the face; and in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us!{/i} (Jer. 2:26‑27)

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Jer. 11:13• ¹³For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal. (Jer. 11:13)

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Dan. 9:5‑8• ⁵we have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, {i}and have rebelled, even turning aside from thy commandments and from thine ordinances.{/i}
⁶{i}And we have not hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, who spoke in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.{/i}
⁷{i}Thine, O Lord, is the righteousness, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, in all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their unfaithfulness in which they have been unfaithful against thee.{/i}
⁸{i}O Lord, unto us is confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.{/i} (Dan. 9:5‑8)

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Hos. 2:13• ¹³And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, {i}and decked herself with her rings and jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith Jehovah.{/i} (Hos. 2:13)

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Hos. 8:9• ⁹For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers. (Hos. 8:9)

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Isa. 57:7‑8• ⁷Upon a high and lofty mountain hast thou set thy bed: thither also wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
⁸And behind the doors and the posts hast thou set up thy memorial: for thou hast uncovered [thyself] apart from me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee [a covenant] with them; thou lovedst their bed, thou sawest their nakedness. (Isa. 57:7‑8)

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Jer. 3:1‑3• ¹{i}They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? Would not that land be utterly polluted? But thou hast committed fornication with many lovers; yet return to me, saith Jehovah.{/i}
²{i}Lift up thine eyes unto the heights and see, where hast thou not been lain with? In the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arab in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy fornications and with thy wickedness.{/i}
³{i}And the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; but thou hast a harlot's forehead, thou refusest to be ashamed.{/i} (Jer. 3:1‑3)

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Ezek. 23:16‑17,40‑44• ¹⁶{i}And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she lusted after them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.{/i}
¹⁷{i}And the children of Babylon came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their fornication; she too defiled herself with them, and her soul was alienated from them.{/i}
⁴⁰{i}And furthermore, they sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thine eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments;{/i}
⁴¹{i}and satest upon a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hadst set mine incense and mine oil.{/i}
⁴²{i}And the voice of a multitude living carelessly was with her; and with people of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, and they put bracelets upon their hands, and a beautiful crown upon their heads.{/i}
⁴³{i}And I said of her that was old in adulteries, Will she now commit her fornications, even she.{/i}
⁴⁴{i}And they went in unto her, as they go in unto a whorish woman: so went they in unto Oholah and unto Oholibah the lewd women.{/i} (Ezek. 23:16‑17,40‑44)

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Hos. 2:8,12• ⁸For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they made into images of gold.
¹²And I will destroy her vines and her fig-trees, {i}whereof she hath said, These are my rewards which my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.{/i} (Hos. 2:8,12)

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Judg. 16:23• ²³{i}Then the lords of the Philistines gathered together to sacrifice a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, Our god has given Samson our enemy into our hands.{/i} (Judg. 16:23)

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Jer. 44:17‑18• ¹⁷But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven , and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
¹⁸But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine. (Jer. 44:17‑18)

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Heb. drinks.

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For their mother hath played the harlot; she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.

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because their mother hath committed lewdness, their parent hath acted shamefully; for she said, I will follow my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my wine.