Jer 3:1, 7:4, Hos 1:2, 4:10, Rev 17:5 | ESV | STEP | If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man’s wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted ? You have played the whore with many lovers ; and would you return to me? declares the Lord .

Jeremiah 3:1

1 ^a“If ^{▼▼Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew Saying, “If} a man divorces his wife
and she goes from him
and becomes another man’s wife,
will he return to her?
^cWould not that land be greatly polluted?
^dYou have played the whore with many lovers;
and would you return to me?

declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 7:4

4 ^eDo not trust in these deceptive words: ‘This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.’

Hosea 1:2

Hosea’s Wife and Children

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

Hosea 4:10

10 ⁱThey shall eat, but not be satisfied;
they shall play the whore, but not multiply,
because they have forsaken the Lord
to cherish

Revelation of John 17:5

5 And on her forehead was written a name of ^jmystery: ^k“Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth’s abominations.”