⁴ And I will have no mercy on her children, for they are the children of her loose ways.

⁶ And after that she gave birth to a daughter. And the Lord said, Give her the name Lo-ruhamah; for I will not again have mercy on Israel, to give them forgiveness.

² The start of the word of the Lord by Hosea: And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take for yourself a wife of loose ways, and children of the same, for the land has been untrue to the Lord.

¹⁸ For this reason I will let loose my wrath: my eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity.

¹⁴ I will have them smashed against one another, fathers and sons together, says the Lord: I will have no pity or mercy, I will have no feeling for them to keep me from giving them to destruction.

¹³ For the man who has had no mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy takes pride in overcoming judging.

²² See then that God is good but his rules are fixed: to those who were put away he was hard, but to you he has been good, on the condition that you keep in his mercy; if not, you will be cut off as they were.

¹⁸ So then, at his pleasure he has mercy on a man, and at his pleasure he makes the heart hard.

⁴¹ You are doing the works of your father. They said to him, We are true sons of Abraham; we have one Father, who is God.

¹² Then the angel of the Lord, answering, said, O Lord of armies, how long will it be before you have mercy on Jerusalem and on the towns of Judah against which your wrath has been burning for seventy years?

¹⁰ And as for me, my eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity, but I will send the punishment of their ways on their heads.

⁵ For this is what the Lord has said: Do not go into the house of sorrow, do not go to make weeping or songs of grief for them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the Lord, even mercy and pity.

³ But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts, the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose woman.

¹¹ When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.

²² Now when Joram saw Jehu he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he said in answer, What peace is possible while all the land is full of the disgusting sins of your mother Jezebel, and her secret arts?