Hosea 2
2
1Say to your brothers, Ammi, # 2:1 That is, My people. and to your sisters, # Hos 2:23; 1Pe 2:10 Ruhamah. # 2:1 That is, Pitied.
Israel’s Unfaithfulness Punished
2Plead with your mother, plead—
for she is not My wife,
and am I not her husband # Isa 50:1; Jer 3:8 —
that she put away her harlotry from her face,
and her adultery from between her breasts, # Eze 23:45
3lest I strip her naked
and leave her as in the day that she was born, # Eze 16:22
and turn her into a wilderness,
and turn her into a dry land,
and kill her with thirst.
4I will not have mercy upon her children, # Jer 13:14; Eze 8:18
for they are children of harlotry.
5For their mother has played the whore. # Isa 1:21
She that conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, “I will pursue my lovers,
who provide my bread and my water,
my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.” # Jer 44:17–18
6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, # Job 3:23
and make a wall, so that she will not find her paths. # Job 19:8
7She will pursue her lovers, but she will not reach them;
and she will seek them but will not find them. # Hos 5:13
Then she will say,
“I will go and return to my first husband,
for it was better for me then than now.” # Jer 2:2
8But she did not know that it was I who provided her # Isa 1:3
the grain, the wine, and the oil, # Joel 1:10; Hag 1:11
and multiplied her silver and gold # Eze 16:16–19
that they used for Baal.
9Therefore I will take back My grain in its time
and My wine in its season,
and I will recover My wool and My flax,
given to cover her nakedness. # Hos 2:3
10Therefore I will uncover her shame
in the sight of her lovers, # Eze 23:29
and no one will deliver her from My hand.
11I will also bring to an end all her joy, # Jer 7:34
her annual feasts, her New Moons,
and her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies. # Isa 1:13–14
12I will destroy her vines and her fig trees,
of which she has said, “These are my rewards that my lovers have given me.”
I will make them a forest, # Isa 5:5; 7:23
and the beasts of the field will eat them.
13I will punish her for the days of the Baals, # Jdg 3:7; Hos 11:2
when she burned incense to them
and adorned herself with her earrings and her jewelry,
and pursued her lovers,
but forgot Me,
declares the Lord.
God’s Mercy on Israel
14Therefore, I will allure her,
and bring her into the wilderness, # Eze 20:35–36
and speak tenderly to her.
15From there, I will give her vineyards to her,
and the Valley of Achor as a door of hope. # Jos 7:26
She will respond there as in the days of her youth, # Jer 2:2
and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
16On that day, declares the Lord,
you will call Me, “My husband,” # Isa 54:5; Jer 3:14; Hos 2:7
and will no longer call Me, “My Baal.” # 2:16 Or My master.
17I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, # Ex 23:13; Jos 23:7
and they will no longer be remembered by their name.
18On that day, I will make a covenant for them
with the beasts of the field, # Eze 34:25 with the fowls of heaven,
and with the creeping things of the ground.
I will break the bow and the sword and the battle # Isa 2:4; Jer 23:6
from the earth,
and will make them to lie down safely.
19I will take you for My wife forever. # Jer 3:14–15; 2Co 11:2
I will take you for My wife in righteousness and in justice,
in mercy and in compassion.
20I will take you for My wife in faithfulness,
and you will know the Lord. # Jer 31:33–34; Jn 17:3
21On that day I will answer,
declares the Lord;
I will answer the heavens,
and they will answer the earth. # Zec 8:12
22The earth will answer the grain,
the wine, and the oil;
and they will answer Jezreel. # Hos 1:4, 11
23Then I will sow her for Myself in the earth. # Jer 31:27
I will have mercy upon Lo-Ruhamah,
and I will say to Lo-Ammi, “You are My people,”
and they will say, “You are my God.”
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Hosea 2
2
1Say to your brothers, Ammi, # 2:1 That is, My people. and to your sisters, # Hos 2:23; 1Pe 2:10 Ruhamah. # 2:1 That is, Pitied.
Israel’s Unfaithfulness Punished
2Plead with your mother, plead—
for she is not My wife,
and am I not her husband # Isa 50:1; Jer 3:8 —
that she put away her harlotry from her face,
and her adultery from between her breasts, # Eze 23:45
3lest I strip her naked
and leave her as in the day that she was born, # Eze 16:22
and turn her into a wilderness,
and turn her into a dry land,
and kill her with thirst.
4I will not have mercy upon her children, # Jer 13:14; Eze 8:18
for they are children of harlotry.
5For their mother has played the whore. # Isa 1:21
She that conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, “I will pursue my lovers,
who provide my bread and my water,
my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.” # Jer 44:17–18
6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, # Job 3:23
and make a wall, so that she will not find her paths. # Job 19:8
7She will pursue her lovers, but she will not reach them;
and she will seek them but will not find them. # Hos 5:13
Then she will say,
“I will go and return to my first husband,
for it was better for me then than now.” # Jer 2:2
8But she did not know that it was I who provided her # Isa 1:3
the grain, the wine, and the oil, # Joel 1:10; Hag 1:11
and multiplied her silver and gold # Eze 16:16–19
that they used for Baal.
9Therefore I will take back My grain in its time
and My wine in its season,
and I will recover My wool and My flax,
given to cover her nakedness. # Hos 2:3
10Therefore I will uncover her shame
in the sight of her lovers, # Eze 23:29
and no one will deliver her from My hand.
11I will also bring to an end all her joy, # Jer 7:34
her annual feasts, her New Moons,
and her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies. # Isa 1:13–14
12I will destroy her vines and her fig trees,
of which she has said, “These are my rewards that my lovers have given me.”
I will make them a forest, # Isa 5:5; 7:23
and the beasts of the field will eat them.
13I will punish her for the days of the Baals, # Jdg 3:7; Hos 11:2
when she burned incense to them
and adorned herself with her earrings and her jewelry,
and pursued her lovers,
but forgot Me,
declares the Lord.
God’s Mercy on Israel
14Therefore, I will allure her,
and bring her into the wilderness, # Eze 20:35–36
and speak tenderly to her.
15From there, I will give her vineyards to her,
and the Valley of Achor as a door of hope. # Jos 7:26
She will respond there as in the days of her youth, # Jer 2:2
and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
16On that day, declares the Lord,
you will call Me, “My husband,” # Isa 54:5; Jer 3:14; Hos 2:7
and will no longer call Me, “My Baal.” # 2:16 Or My master.
17I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, # Ex 23:13; Jos 23:7
and they will no longer be remembered by their name.
18On that day, I will make a covenant for them
with the beasts of the field, # Eze 34:25 with the fowls of heaven,
and with the creeping things of the ground.
I will break the bow and the sword and the battle # Isa 2:4; Jer 23:6
from the earth,
and will make them to lie down safely.
19I will take you for My wife forever. # Jer 3:14–15; 2Co 11:2
I will take you for My wife in righteousness and in justice,
in mercy and in compassion.
20I will take you for My wife in faithfulness,
and you will know the Lord. # Jer 31:33–34; Jn 17:3
21On that day I will answer,
declares the Lord;
I will answer the heavens,
and they will answer the earth. # Zec 8:12
22The earth will answer the grain,
the wine, and the oil;
and they will answer Jezreel. # Hos 1:4, 11
23Then I will sow her for Myself in the earth. # Jer 31:27
I will have mercy upon Lo-Ruhamah,
and I will say to Lo-Ammi, “You are My people,”
and they will say, “You are my God.”
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