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Hosea 2

Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible

2:1

Yet the number of the children of Israel was as the sand of the sea, which shall not be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, even they shall be called the sons of the living God.

“Say of your brothers, ‘,’ and of your sisters, ‘.’

2:2

And the children of Juda shall be gathered, and the children of Israel together, and shall appoint themselves one head, and shall come up out of the land: for great [shall be] the day of Jezrael.

Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.

2:3

Say to your brother, My people, and to your sister, Pitied.

Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.

2:4

Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband: and I will remove her fornication out of my presence, and her adultery from between her breasts:

I will have no compassion on her children, because they are the children of adultery.

2:5

that I may strip her naked, and make her again as she was at the day of her birth: and I will make her desolate, and make her as a dry land, and will kill her with thirst.

For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’

2:6

And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are children of fornication.

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.

2:7

And their mother went a-whoring: she that bore them disgraced [them]: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, and my garments, and my linen clothes, my oil and all my necessaries.

She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will return to my first husband, for then I was better off than now.’

2:8

Therefore, behold, I hedge up her way with thorns, and will stop the ways, and she shall not find her path.

For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, who lavished on her silver and gold—which they crafted for Baal.

2:9

And she shall follow after her lovers, and shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: and she shall say, I will go, and return to my former husband; for it was better with me than now.

Therefore I will take back My grain in its time and My new wine in its season; I will take away My wool and linen, which were given to cover her nakedness.

2:10

And she knew not that I gave her her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied silver to her: but she made silver and gold [images] for Baal.

And then I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of My hands.

2:11

Therefore I will return, and take away my corn in its season, and my wine in its time; and I will take away my raiment and my linen clothes, so that she shall not cover her nakedness.

I will put an end to all her exultation: her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—all her appointed feasts.

2:12

And now I will expose her uncleanness before her lovers, and no one shall by any means deliver her out of my hand.

I will destroy her vines and fig trees, which she thinks are the wages paid by her lovers. So I will make them into a thicket, and the beasts of the field will devour them.

2:13

And I will take away all her gladness, her feasts, and her festivals at the new moon, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.

I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she adorned herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.

2:14

And I will utterly destroy her vines, and her fig-trees, all things of which she said, These are my hire which my lovers have given me: and I will make them a testimony, and the wild beasts of the field, and the birds of the sky, and the reptiles of the earth shall devour them.

“Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness, and speak to her tenderly.

2:15

And I will recompense on her the days of Baalim, wherein she sacrificed to them, and put on her ear-rings, and her necklaces, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith the Lord.

There I will give back her vineyards and make the Valley into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.

2:16

Therefore, behold, I [will] cause her to err, and will make her as desolate, and will speak comfortably to her.

In that day,” declares the LORD, “you will call Me ‘,’ and no longer call Me ‘.’

2:17

And I will give her her possessions from thence, and the valley of Achor to open her understanding: and she shall be afflicted there according to the days of her infancy, and according to the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.

For I will remove from her lips the names of the Baals; no longer will their names be invoked.

2:18

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, [that] she shall call me, My husband, and shall no longer call me Baalim.

On that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that crawl on the ground. And I will abolish bow and sword and battle in the land, and will make them lie down in safety.

2:19

And I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and their names shall be remembered no more at all.

So I will betroth you to Me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, and compassion.

2:20

And I will make for them in that day a covenant with the wild beasts of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the reptiles of the earth: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle from off the earth, and will cause thee to dwell safely.

And I will betroth you in faithfulness, and you will know the LORD.”

2:21

And I will betroth thee to myself for ever; yea, I will betroth thee to myself in righteousness, and in judgment, and in mercy, and in tender compassions;

“On that day I will respond—” declares the LORD—“I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth.

2:22

and I will betroth thee to myself in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord.

And the earth will respond to the grain, to the new wine and oil, and they will respond .

2:23

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, I will hearken to the heaven, and it shall hearken to the earth;

And I will sow her as My own in the land, and I will have compassion on ‘No .’ I will say to those called ‘Not ,’ ‘You ,’ and they will say, ‘You are my God.’”

2:24

and the earth shall hearken to the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hearken to Jezrael.

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2:25

And I will sow her to me on the earth; and will love her that was not loved, and will say to that which was not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art the Lord my God.

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