Song 8:1-2, Isa 50:1, Hos 2:2, 5, 4:5, Rev 17:5 | ESV | STEP | Oh that you were like a brother to me who nursed at my mother’s breasts ! If I found you outside , I would kiss you, and none would despise me.

Song of Solomon 8:1-2

Longing for Her Beloved

1 Oh that you were like a brother to me
who nursed at my mother’s breasts!
If I found you outside, I would kiss you,
and none would despise me.
2 I would lead you and ^abring you
into the house of my mother—
she who used to teach me.
I would give you ^bspiced wine to drink,
the juice of my pomegranate.

Isaiah 50:1

Israel’s Sin and the Servant’s Obedience

1 Thus says the Lord:
“Where is ^cyour mother’s certificate of divorce,
with which ^dI sent her away?
Or ^ewhich of my creditors is it
to whom I have sold you?
^fBehold, for your iniquities you were sold,
and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

Hosea 2:2

2 “Plead with your mother, plead—
for ^gshe is not my wife,
and I am not her husband—
that she put away ^hher whoring from her face,
and her adultery from between her breasts;

Hosea 2:5

5 For ⁱtheir mother has played the whore;
she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For ^jshe said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
who ^kgive me my bread and my water,
my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’

Hosea 4:5

5 You shall stumble by day;
the prophet also shall stumble with you by night;
and I will destroy ^lyour mother.

Revelation of John 17:5

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