• Jeremiah 3:6-14
  The LORD said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: 'Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there played the harlot. And I said, after she had done all these things, ‘Return to Me.’ But she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. Then I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also. So it came to pass, through her casual harlotry, that she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees. And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me with her whole heart, but in pretense," says the LORD. Then the LORD said to me, "Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah. Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say:
  'Return, backsliding Israel,' says the LORD;
  'I will not cause My anger to fall on you.
  For I am merciful,' says the LORD;
  'I will not remain angry forever.
  That you have transgressed against the LORD your God,
  And have scattered your charms
  To alien deities under every green tree,
  And you have not obeyed My voice,' says the LORD. “Return, O backsliding children,” says the LORD; “for I am married to you. I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
   
• Ezekiel 16:15-16
  “But you trusted in your own beauty, played the harlot because of your fame, and poured out your harlotry on everyone passing by who would have it. You took some of your garments and adorned multicolored high places for yourself, and played the harlot on them. Such things should not happen, nor be.
   
• Hosea 1:2
  When the LORD began to speak by Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea:
  ' Go, take yourself a wife of harlotry
  And children of harlotry,
  For the land has committed great harlotry
  By departing from the LORD.'
   
• Hosea 2:2-8
  'Bring charges against your mother, bring charges;
  For she is not My wife, nor am I her Husband!
  Let her put away her harlotries from her sight,
  And her adulteries from between her breasts;
  Lest I strip her naked
  And expose her, as in the day she was born,
  And make her like a wilderness,
  And set her like a dry land,
  And slay her with thirst.
  ' I will not have mercy on her children,
  For they are the children of harlotry.
  For their mother has played the harlot;
  She who conceived them has behaved shamefully.
  For she said, 'I will go after my lovers,
  Who give me my bread and my water,
  My wool and my linen,
  My oil and my drink.'
  “ Therefore, behold,
  I will hedge up your way with thorns,
  And wall her in,
  So that she cannot find her paths.
  She will chase her lovers,
  But not overtake them;
  Yes, she will seek them, but not find them.
  Then she will say,
  ‘ I will go and return to my first husband,
  For then it was better for me than now.’
  For she did not know
  That I gave her grain, new wine, and oil,
  And multiplied her silver and gold'
  Which they prepared for Baal.
  
   
• Jeremiah 3:1
  "They say, 'If a man divorces his wife,
  And she goes from him
  And becomes another man's,
  May he return to her again?'
  Would not that land be greatly polluted?
  But you have played the harlot with many lovers;
  Yet return to Me," says the LORD.
  
   
• Hosea 4:11-13
  "Harlotry, wine, and new wine enslave the heart.
  My people ask counsel from their wooden idols,
  And their staff informs them.
  For the spirit of harlotry has caused them to stray,
  And they have played the harlot against their God.
  They offer sacrifices on the mountaintops,
  And burn incense on the hills,
  Under oaks, poplars, and terebinths,
  Because their shade is good.
  Therefore your daughters commit harlotry,
  And your brides commit adultery.
  
   

Related Scriptures

• Jeremiah 2:2
  "Go and cry in the hearing of Jerusalem, saying, 'Thus says the LORD:
  "I remember you,
  The kindness of your youth,
  The love of your betrothal,
  When you went after Me in the wilderness,
  In a land not sown.