Isa 1:21, 57:3, Hos 1:2, 2:4 | ESV | STEP | How the faithful city has become a whore , she who was full of justice ! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers .

Isaiah 1:21

The Unfaithful City

21 How the faithful city
^ahas become a whore, ^{▼▼Or become unchaste}
^cshe who was full of justice!
Righteousness lodged in her,
but now murderers.

Isaiah 57:3

3 But you, draw near,
sons of the sorceress,
^doffspring of the adulterer and the loose woman.

Hosea 1:2

Hosea’s Wife and Children

2 When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, ^e“Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have ^fchildren of whoredom, for ^gthe land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.”

Hosea 2:4

4 ^hUpon her children also I will have no mercy,
ⁱbecause they are children of whoredom.