She doted on the Assyrians, governors and rulers, [her] neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.

I saw that she was defiled; they both took one way.

She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

As soon as she saw them she doted on them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.

The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution, and she was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.

So she uncovered her prostitution, and uncovered her nakedness: then my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was alienated from her sister.

Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt.

She doted on their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

Then I said of her who was old in adulteries, Now will they play the prostitute with her, and she [with them].

Righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women who shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the bare rock; she didn't pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.

She has wearied [herself] with toil; yet her great rust doesn't go forth out of her; her rust doesn't [go forth] by fire.

Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken: the gate of the peoples; she is turned to me; I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste:

She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea; for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh; and she shall become a spoil to the nations.

They shall take up a lamentation over you, and tell you, How you are destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, who was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all who lived there!

They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword; draw her away and all her multitudes.

Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?

At the end of years they shall join themselves together; and the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the strength of her arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm; but she shall be given up, and those who brought her, and he who became the father of her, and he who strengthened her in those times.

He shall set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and with him equitable conditions; and he shall perform them: and he shall give him the daughter of women, to corrupt her; but she shall not stand, neither be for him.

So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.

She conceived again, and bore a daughter. Then he said to him, "Call her name Lo-Ruhamah; for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them.

Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son.

Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.

For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said, 'I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.'

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can't find her way.

She will follow after her lovers, but she won't overtake them; and she will seek them, but won't find them. Then she will say, 'I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.'

For she did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, 'These are my wages that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest,' and the animals of the field shall eat them.

I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me," says Yahweh.

I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

Samaria will bear her guilt; for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open."

Egypt will be a desolation, and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

"The virgin of Israel has fallen; She shall rise no more. She is cast down on her land; there is no one to raise her up."

All her idols will be beaten to pieces, and all her temple gifts will be burned with fire, and all her images I will destroy; for of the hire of a prostitute has she gathered them, and to the hire of a prostitute shall they return."

Harness the chariot to the swift steed, inhabitant of Lachish. She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; For the transgressions of Israel were found in you.

Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in labor gives birth. Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.

Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, where is Yahweh your God? Then my enemy will see me and will cover her shame. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.

It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.

She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.

Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, "I am, and there is none besides me." How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.

She didn't obey the voice. She didn't receive correction. She didn't trust in Yahweh. She didn't draw near to her God.

He said to me, "To build her a house in the land of Shinar. When it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place."

Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, and he will strike her power in the sea; and she will be devoured with fire.

All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up, and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin's gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the king's winepresses.

Yet you say, 'Why?' Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; for after his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

She shall bring forth a son. You shall call his name Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins."

and didn't know her sexually until she had brought forth her firstborn son. He named him Jesus.

"A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; she wouldn't be comforted, because they are no more."

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

He touched her hand, and the fever left her. She got up and served him.

While he told these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped him, saying, "My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live."

for she said within herself, "If I just touch his garment, I will be made well."

The queen of the south will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here.

Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she should ask.

She, being prompted by her mother, said, "Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptizer."

His head was brought on a platter, and given to the young lady: and she brought it to her mother.

But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, "Send her away; for she cries after us."

But she came and worshiped him, saying, "Lord, help me."

But she said, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters' table."

I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery."

He said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand, and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom."

In the resurrection therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had her."

that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.

a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table.

However, knowing this, Jesus said to them, "Why do you trouble the woman? Because she has done a good work for me.

For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

He came and took her by the hand, and raised her up. The fever left her, and she served them.

and begged him much, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may be made healthy, and live."

and had suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew worse,

For she said, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be made well."

Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.

Immediately the girl rose up and walked, for she was twelve years old. They were amazed with great amazement.

Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him, but she couldn't,

When the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and those sitting with him. The king said to the young lady, "Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you."

She went out, and said to her mother, "What shall I ask?" She said, "The head of John the Baptizer."

She came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, "I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptizer on a platter."

Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. She begged him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter.

But she answered him, "Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."

She went away to her house, and found the child having been laid on the bed, with the demon gone out.

If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery."

In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as a wife."

A poor widow came, and she cast in two small brass coins, which equal a quadrans coin.

for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on."

While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard -- very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head.

But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me.

She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.

and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him, and said, "You were also with the Nazarene, Jesus!"

She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept.

After these days Elizabeth, his wife, conceived, and she hid herself five months, saying,

But when she saw him, she was greatly troubled at the saying, and considered what kind of salutation this might be.

She called out with a loud voice, and said, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!

Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord!"

Now the time that Elizabeth should give birth was fulfilled, and she brought forth a son.

It happened, while they were there, that the day had come that she should give birth.

She brought forth her firstborn son, and she wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no room for them in the inn.

There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,

and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn't depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day.