“They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man’s, should he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me,” says the LORD. Deu 24:1-4Ezk 16:26Deu 4:29-31Ezk 16:28-29Ezk 23:4-49Hos 14:1-4Hos 2:5-7Jer 2:20
“Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat waiting for them by the road, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness. Ezk 16:24-25Ezk 8:4-6Gen 38:14Jer 2:20Jer 2:7Deu 12:2Jer 3:11Ki 11:3 Therefore the showers have been withheld and there has been no latter rain; yet you have had a prostitute’s forehead and you refused to be ashamed. Lev 26:19Jer 5:24Amo 4:7Deu 28:23Isa 5:6Jer 14:22Jer 14:4Hag 1:11 Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth!’? Jer 2:2Jer 3:19Jer 31:9Hos 2:15Jer 2:27Jer 31:18-20Pro 2:17Psa 71:17
“‘Will he retain his anger forever? Will he keep it to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way.” Ezk 22:6Isa 57:16Jer 3:12Mic 2:1Mic 7:3Isa 64:9Psa 103:8-9Psa 77:7-9
Moreover, the LORD said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and has played the prostitute there. 1Ki 14:232Ki 17:7-17Ezk 16:24-25Ezk 16:31Ezk 20:28Ezk 23:11Isa 57:7Jer 17:2 I said after she had done all these things, ‘She will return to me;’ but she didn’t return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. Ezk 16:462Ch 30:6-122Ki 17:13-14Ezk 23:2-4Hos 14:1Hos 6:1-4Jer 3:8-11 I saw when, for this very cause, that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, had no fear, but she also went and played the prostitute. Deu 24:12Ki 18:9-11Hos 2:2-3Hos 3:4Hos 4:15-17Isa 50:12Ki 17:6-19Deu 24:3 Because she took her prostitution lightly, the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with wood. Jer 2:27Isa 57:6Jer 3:2Hab 2:19Jer 10:8Jer 2:7Ezk 16:17Ezk 23:10 Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says the LORD. Hos 7:14Jer 12:22Ch 34:33Isa 10:6Psa 18:44Psa 66:3Psa 78:36-37
The LORD said to me, “Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah. Ezk 16:51-52Ezk 23:11Hos 11:7Ezk 16:47Hos 4:16Jer 3:22Jer 3:8 Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says the LORD; ‘I will not look in anger on you, for I am merciful,’ says the LORD. ‘I will not keep anger forever. Ezk 33:11Psa 86:15Deu 4:29-31Hos 14:1-3Jer 3:22Mic 7:18-20Jer 3:18Jer 31:20 Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the LORD your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,’” says the LORD. Deu 12:2Deu 30:1-3Jer 2:25Jer 3:25Jer 3:61Jn 1:8-10Jer 14:20Jer 2:20 “Return, backsliding children,” says the LORD, “for I am a husband to you. I will take one of you from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion. Hos 2:19-20Jer 2:19Jer 31:32Isa 54:5Ezk 34:11-14Jer 31:8-10Zec 13:7-9Isa 10:22 I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding. Jer 23:4Act 20:28Eph 4:11-12Ezk 34:23Jhn 21:15-17Isa 30:20-21Pro 10:211Co 3:1-2 It will come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land in those days,” says the LORD, “they will no longer say, ‘the ark of the LORD’s covenant!’ It will not come to mind. They won’t remember it. They won’t miss it, nor will another be made. Amo 9:14-15Ezk 37:26Isa 65:17Hos 1:10-11Isa 66:1-2Zec 8:4-5Ezk 36:8-12Heb 10:19-21 At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘The LORD’s Throne;’ and all the nations will be gathered to it, to the LORD’s name, to Jerusalem. They will no longer walk after the stubbornness of their evil heart. Ezk 43:7Jer 17:12Mic 4:1-5Zec 2:11Jer 11:8Zec 8:20-23Isa 2:2-4Isa 49:18-23 In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance to your fathers. Jer 31:8Amo 9:15Hos 1:11Jer 23:8Jer 50:4Jer 16:15Jer 3:12Zec 10:6
“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’ Jer 3:4Rom 8:15-17Jer 31:9Isa 63:161Jn 3:1-3Jer 32:39-40Mat 6:8-92Co 6:17-18
“Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel,” says the LORD. Isa 48:8Jer 5:11Ezk 16:15-52Hos 3:1Hos 5:7Hos 6:7Jer 3:1-2Jer 3:8-10 A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten the LORD their God. 2Co 7:10Jer 2:32Jer 3:2Jer 31:9Isa 15:2Isa 17:10Ezk 23:35Ezk 7:16 Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backsliding. Hos 14:1Hos 14:4Zec 13:9Hos 6:1-2Jer 30:17Hos 13:4Hos 3:5Jer 31:18
“Behold, we have come to you; for you are the LORD our God. Truly help from the hills, the tumult on the mountains, is in vain. Truly the salvation of Israel is in the LORD our God. Psa 121:1-2Psa 3:8Isa 12:2Ezk 20:28Hos 1:7Jhn 4:22Isa 43:11Isa 44:9 But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. Hos 9:10Ezk 16:61Ezk 16:63Hos 10:6Hos 2:8Jer 11:13 Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed the LORD our God’s voice.” Jer 22:21Ezk 7:18Jer 2:26Lam 5:16Pro 5:13Dan 9:6-10Deu 31:17-18Isa 50:11