Hosea 2 (New American Standard)
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1 aSay to your brothers, "bAmmi," and to your sisters, "cRuhamah." 2 "Contend with your mother, 1contend, For she is 2not my wife, and I am not her husband ; And let her put away her 3harlotry from her face And her adultery from between her breasts, 3 Or I will strip her 4naked And expose her as on the 5day when she was born. I will also 6make her like a wilderness, Make her like desert land And slay her with 7thirst. 4 "Also, I will have no compassion on her children, Because they are 8children of harlotry. 5 "For their mother has 9played the harlot ; She who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, '10I will go after my lovers, Who 11give me my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, my 12oil and my drink.' 6 "Therefore, behold, I will 13hedge up dher way with 14thorns, And I will build ea wall against her so that she cannot find her 15paths. 7 "She will 16pursue her lovers, but she will not overtake them; And she will seek them, but will not find them. Then she will say, '17I will go back to my 18first husband, For it was 19better for me then than now !' 8 "For she does 20not know that it was 21I who gave her the grain, the new wine and the oil, And lavished on her silver and gold, Which they fused for Baal. 9 "Therefore, I will 22take back My grain at gharvest time And My new wine in its season. I will also take away My wool and My flax Given to cover her nakedness. 10 "And then I will 23uncover her lewdness In the sight of her lovers, And no one will rescue her out of My hand. 11 "I will also 24put an end to all her gaiety, Her 25feasts, her 26new moons, her sabbaths And all her festal assemblies. 12 "I will 27destroy her vines and fig trees, Of which she said, 'These are my wages Which my lovers have given me.' And I will 28make them a forest, And the 29beasts of the field will devour them. 13 "I will punish her for the 30days of the Baals When she used to h31offer sacrifices to them And 32adorn herself with her iearrings and jewelry, And follow her lovers, so that she 33forgot Me," declares the LORD.Restoration of Israel
14 "Therefore, behold, I will allure her, 34Bring her into the wilderness And speak jkindly to her. 15 "Then I will give her her 35vineyards from there, And 36the valley of Achor as a door of hope. And she will k37sing there as in the days of her youth, As in the 38day when she came up from the land of Egypt. 16 "It will come about in that day," declares the LORD, "That you will call Me l39Ishi And will no longer call Me mBaali. 17 "For 40I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, So that they will be nmentioned by their names no more. 18 "In that day I will also make a covenant for them With the 41beasts of the field, The birds of the sky And the creeping things of the ground. And I will o42abolish the bow, the sword and war from the land, And will make them 43lie down in safety. 19 "I will 44betroth you to Me forever ; Yes, I will betroth you to Me in 45righteousness and in justice, In lovingkindness and in compassion, 20 And I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness. Then you will 46know the LORD. 21 "It will come about in that day that 47I will respond," declares the LORD. "I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth, 22 And the 48earth will respond to the grain, to the new wine and to the oil, And they will respond to pJezreel. 23 "I will 49sow her for Myself in the land. 50I will also have compassion on qher who had not obtained compassion, And 51I will say to rthose who were 52not My people, 'You are My people !' And sthey will say, 'You are my God !' "New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, California. All rights reserved. (New American Standard Version - Holy Bible)
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