Jer 3:1, 9, 13, Eze 16:20, 25, 23:43, Hos 1:2 | 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 3:9

9 Because she took her whoredom lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with ^estone and tree.

Jeremiah 3:13

13 ^fOnly acknowledge your guilt,
that you rebelled against the Lord your God
and scattered your favors among foreigners under ^gevery green tree,
and that you have not obeyed my voice,

declares the Lord.

Ezekiel 16:20

20 ^hAnd you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and ⁱthese you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter

Ezekiel 16:25

25 At the head of every street ^jyou built your lofty place and made ^kyour beauty an abomination, ^loffering yourself ^{▼▼Hebrew spreading your legs} to any passerby and multiplying your whoring.

Ezekiel 23:43

43 “Then I said of her who was worn out by adultery, 'Now they will continue to use her for a whore, even her!' ^{▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain}

Hosea 1:2

Hosea’s Wife and Children

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