They were not really committed to him, ¹  and they were unfaithful to his covenant.

I choose the path of faithfulness; I am committed to ¹  your regulations.

Teach me proper discernment ¹  and understanding! For I consider your commands to be reliable. ² 

I have vowed and solemnly sworn to keep your just regulations.

I am committed to peace, ¹  but when I speak, they want to make war. ² 

to guard ¹  the paths of the righteous ²  and to protect ³  the way of his pious ones. ⁴ 

The Father loves the Son and has placed all things under his authority. ¹ 

holding to the mystery of the faith ¹  with a clear conscience.

But he refused, saying ¹  to his master’s wife, “Look, my master does not give any thought ²  to his household with me here, ³  and everything that he owns he has put into my care. ⁴ 

when it happens that he sins and he is found guilty, ¹  then he must return whatever he had stolen, or whatever he had extorted, or the thing that he had held in trust, ²  or the lost thing that he had found,

You must obey my charge to not practice any of the abominable statutes ¹  that have been done before you, so that you do not ²  defile yourselves by them. I am the Lord your God.’”

There were also male cultic prostitutes ¹  in the land. They committed the same horrible sins as the nations ²  that the Lord had driven out from before the Israelites.

Just as the Lord had announced, he rejected Judah because of all the sins which Manasseh had committed. ¹ 

When your people ¹  come to their senses ²  in the land where they are held prisoner, they will repent and beg for your mercy in the land of their imprisonment, admitting, ‘We have sinned and gone astray ³ , we have done evil!’

sent and had Jeremiah brought from the courtyard of the guardhouse. They turned him over to Gedaliah, ¹  the son of Ahikam and the grandson of Shaphan, to take him home with him. ²  But Jeremiah stayed among the people. ³ 

When the Lord first spoke ¹  through ²  Hosea, he ³  said to him, ⁴  “Go marry ⁵  a prostitute ⁶  who will bear illegitimate children conceived through prostitution, ⁷  because the nation ⁸  continually commits spiritual prostitution ⁹  by turning away from the Lord.”

A third time he said to them, “Why? What wrong has he done? I have found him guilty ¹  of no crime deserving death. ²  I will therefore flog ³  him and release him.”

“‘If any person ¹  sins unintentionally, then he must bring a yearling female goat for a purification offering.

The rest of the people will hear and become afraid to keep doing such evil among you.

Because he committed this cold-hearted crime, he must pay for the lamb four times over!” ¹