“Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly as the nations do, for you have acted promiscuously, leaving your God. You have loved the wages of a prostitute on every grain-threshing floor…”
Hosea 9:1 (HCSB)
“Therefore, I am going to persuade her, lead her to the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her. There I will give her vineyards back to her and make the Valley of Achore into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came out of the land of Egypt.”
Hosea 2:14-15 (HCSB)
“The word of the Lord that came to Hosea son of Beeri during the reigns of Uzziah, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and of Jeroboam son of Jehoash, king of Israel. When the Lord first spoke to Hosea, He said this to him: Go and marry a promiscuous wife and have children of promiscuity, for the land is committing blatant acts of promiscuity by abandoning the Lord.”
Hosea 1:1-2 (HCSB)