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Hosea 2

World English Bible British Edition · Berean Standard Bible

2:1

“Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’

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

2:2

Contend with your mother!

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

lest I strip her naked,

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

Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy,

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

2:5

For their mother has played the prostitute.

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

Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns,

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

2:7

She will follow after her lovers,

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

For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil,

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

Therefore I will take back my grain in its time,

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

Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers,

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

I will also cause all her celebrations to cease:

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

2:12

I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,

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

I will visit on her the days of the Baals,

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

“Therefore behold, I will allure her,

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

2:15

I will give her vineyards from there,

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

It will be in that day,” says the LORD,

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

2:17

For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth,

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

2:18

In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field,

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

I will betroth you to me forever.

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

2:20

I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness;

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

2:21

It will happen in that day, that I will respond,” says the LORD.

“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 the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil;

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

2:23

I will sow her to me in 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.’”