They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned giving to the LORD.

I spoke to the prophets, giving revelation after revelation, and employing parables in the prophetic writings.

And I will give her punishment for the days of the Baals, to whom she has been burning perfumes, when she made herself fair with her nose-rings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, giving no thought to me, says the Lord.

For gone a-whoring hath their mother, Acted shamefully hath their conceiver, For she hath said, I go after my lovers, Those giving my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.