Isa 57:3-7, Eze 23:45-47, Hos 1:2, 2:2-5, Mal 2:11 | ESV | STEP | But you, draw near , sons of the sorceress , offspring of the adulterer and the loose woman .

Isaiah 57:3-7

3 But you, draw near,
sons of the sorceress,
^aoffspring of the adulterer and the loose woman.
4 Whom are you mocking?
Against whom ^bdo you open your mouth wide
and stick out your tongue?
Are you not children of ^ctransgression,
^dthe offspring of deceit,
5 you who burn with lust among ^ethe oaks, ^{▼▼Or among the terebinths}
under every green tree,
^gwho slaughter your children in the valleys,
under the clefts of the rocks?
6 Among the smooth stones of ^hthe valley is your portion;
they, they, are your lot;
to them you have poured out a drink offering,
you have brought a grain offering.
Shall I relent for these things?
7 ⁱOn a high and lofty mountain
you have set your bed,
and there you went up to offer sacrifice.

Ezekiel 23:45-47

45 But righteous men ^jshall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.”

46 For thus says the Lord God: ^k“Bring up a vast host against them, and make them ^lan object of terror and ^ma plunder. 47 ⁿAnd the host shall stone them and cut them down with their swords. ^oThey shall kill their sons and their daughters, and ^pburn up their houses.

Hosea 1:2

Hosea’s Wife and Children

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

Hosea 2:2-5

2 “Plead with your mother, plead—
for ^tshe is not my wife,
and I am not her husband—
that she put away ^uher whoring from her face,
and her adultery from between her breasts;
3 lest ^vI strip her naked
and make her as ^win the day she was born,
and ^xmake her like a wilderness,
and make her like a parched land,
and kill her with thirst.
4 ^yUpon her children also I will have no mercy,
^zbecause they are children of whoredom.
5 For ^aatheir mother has played the whore;
she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For ^abshe said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
who ^acgive me my bread and my water,
my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’

Malachi 2:11

11 Judah has been ^adfaithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For ^aeJudah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.