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The Holy Tanakh: Hosea: Chapter 3
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And the Lord said unto me: 'Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend and an adulteress, even as the Lord loveth the children of Israel, though they turn unto other gods, and love cakes of raisins.
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So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley;
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and I said unto her: 'Thou shalt sit solitary for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be any man's wife; nor will I be thine.'
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For the children of Israel shall sit solitary many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without pillar, and without ephod or teraphim;
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afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall come trembling unto the Lord and to His goodness in the end of days.
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The Holy Tanakh: Hosea: Chapter 4
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Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel! for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
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Swearing and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery! they break all bounds, and blood toucheth blood.
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Therefore doth the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein doth languish, with the beasts of the field, and the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also are taken away.
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Yet let no man strive, neither let any man reprove; for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
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Therefore shalt thou stumble in the day, and the prophet also shall stumble with thee in the night; and I will destroy thy mother.
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My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to Me; seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.
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The more they were increased, the more they sinned against Me; I will change their glory into shame.
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They feed on the sin of My people, and set their heart on their iniquity.
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And it is like people, like priest; and I will punish him for his ways, and will recompense him his doings.
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And they shall eat, and not have enough, they shall commit harlotry, and shall not increase; because they have left off to take heed to the Lord.
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Harlotry, wine, and new wine take away the heart.
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My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declareth unto them; for the spirit of harlotry hath caused them to err, and they have gone astray from under their God.
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They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and offer upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow thereof is good; therefore your daughters commit harlotry, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.
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I will not punish your daughters when they commit harlotry, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery; for they themselves consort with lewd women, and they sacrifice with harlots; and the people that is without understanding is distraught.
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Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah become guilty; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear: 'As the Lord liveth.'
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For Israel is stubborn like a stubborn heifer; now shall the Lord feed them as a lamb in a large place?
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