Quotes about Betrayal
I will have no compassion on her children, because they are the children of adultery.
— Hosea 2:4
She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will return to my first husband, for then I was better off than now.’
— Hosea 2:7
I will destroy her vines and fig trees, which she thinks are the wages paid by her lovers. So I will make them into a thicket, and the beasts of the field will devour them.
— Hosea 2:12
My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.
— Hosea 4:12
They have been unfaithful to the LORD; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the New Moon will devour them along with their land.
— Hosea 5:7
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes.
— Hosea 6:4
But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.
— Hosea 6:7
Although I trained and strengthened their arms, they plot evil against Me.
— Hosea 7:15
But Israel has rejected good; an enemy will pursue him.
— Hosea 8:3
For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.
— Hosea 8:9
Ephraim surrounds Me with lies, the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One.
— Hosea 11:12
You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.
— Joel 3:6