Ezekiel 23:5   (Read all of Ezekiel 23)

"Oholah engaged in prostitution while she was still mine; and she lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians-warriors

Ezekiel 23:9   (Read all of Ezekiel 23)

"Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, the Assyrians, for whom she lusted.

Ezekiel 23:17   (Read all of Ezekiel 23)

Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. After she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust.

Ezekiel 23:20   (Read all of Ezekiel 23)

There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

Ezekiel 23:22   (Read all of Ezekiel 23)

"Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will stir up your lovers against you, those you turned away from in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side-

Ezekiel 33:31   (Read all of Ezekiel 33)

My people come to you, as they usually do, and sit before you to hear your words, but they do not put them into practice. Their mouths speak of love, but their hearts are greedy for unjust gain.

Ezekiel 33:32   (Read all of Ezekiel 33)

Indeed, to them you are nothing more than one who sings love songs with a beautiful voice and plays an instrument well, for they hear your words but do not put them into practice.

Daniel 9:4   (Read all of Daniel 9)

I prayed to the Lord my God and confessed: "Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with those who love him and keep his commandments,

Hosea 1:6   (Read all of Hosea 1)

Gomer conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. Then the Lord said to Hosea, "Call her Lo-Ruhamah (which means "not loved"), for I will no longer show love to Israel, that I should at all forgive them.

Hosea 1:7   (Read all of Hosea 1)

Yet I will show love to Judah; and I will save them-not by bow, sword or battle, or by horses and horsemen, but I, the Lord their God, will save them."

Hosea 2:1   (Read all of Hosea 2)

"Say of your brothers, 'My people,' and of your sisters, 'My loved one.'

Hosea 2:4   (Read all of Hosea 2)

I will not show my love to her children, because they are the children of adultery.

Hosea 2:5   (Read all of Hosea 2)

Their mother has been unfaithful and has conceived them in disgrace. She said, 'I will go after my lovers, who give me my food and my water, my wool and my linen, my olive oil and my drink.'

Hosea 2:7   (Read all of Hosea 2)

She will chase after her lovers but not catch them; she will look for them but not find them. Then she will say, 'I will go back to my husband as at first, for then I was better off than now.'

Hosea 2:10   (Read all of Hosea 2)

So now I will expose her lewdness before the eyes of her lovers; no one will take her out of my hands.

Hosea 2:12   (Read all of Hosea 2)

I will ruin her vines and her fig trees, which she said were her pay from her lovers; I will make them a thicket, and wild animals will devour them.

Hosea 2:13   (Read all of Hosea 2)

I will punish her for the days she burned incense to the Baals; she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers, but me she forgot," declares the Lord.

Hosea 2:19   (Read all of Hosea 2)

I will betroth you to me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in love and compassion.

Hosea 2:23   (Read all of Hosea 2)

I will plant her for myself in the land; I will show my love to the one I called 'Not my loved one. ' I will say to those called 'Not my people, ' 'You are my people'; and they will say, 'You are my God.' "

Hosea 3:1   (Read all of Hosea 3)

The Lord said to me, "Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes."

Hosea 4:1   (Read all of Hosea 4)

Hear the word of the Lord, you Israelites, because the Lord has a charge to bring against you who live in the land: "There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgment of God in the land.

Hosea 4:18   (Read all of Hosea 4)

Even when their drinks are gone, they continue their prostitution; their rulers dearly love shameful ways.

Hosea 6:4   (Read all of Hosea 6)

"What can I do with you, Ephraim? What can I do with you, Judah? Your love is like the morning mist, like the early dew that disappears.

Hosea 8:9   (Read all of Hosea 8)

For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has sold herself to lovers.