Hosea 2
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Hosea 2
1 # 2.1 2.3 in Heb Say to your brothers, “Ammi,”#2.1 That is, my people and to your sisters, “Ruhamah.”#2.1 That is, pitied
Israel’s Infidelity, Punishment, and Redemption
2 #
v 5
; Isa 50.1; Hos 1.2; 4.5Plead with your mother, plead—
for she is not my wife,
and I am not her husband—
that she put away her prostitution from her face
and her adultery from between her breasts,
3 #
Isa 32.13, 14; Ezek 16.7, 22, 39; Am 8.11 or I will strip her naked
and expose her as in the day she was born
and make her like a wilderness
and turn her into a parched land
and kill her with thirst.
4 #
Jer 13.14; Ezek 8.18 Upon her children also I will have no pity,
because they are children of prostitution.
5 #
Isa 1.21; Jer 3.1, 2, 6; 44.17, 18 For their mother has prostituted herself;
she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, “I will go after my lovers;
they give me my bread and my water,
my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.”
6 #
Job 3.23; 19.8; Hos 9.6; 10.8 Therefore I will hedge up her#2.6 Gk Syr: Heb your way with thorns,
and I will build a wall against her
so that she cannot find her paths.
7 #
Jer 2.2; 3.1; Ezek 16.8; Hos 13.6 She shall pursue her lovers
but not overtake them,
and she shall seek them
but shall not find them.
Then she shall say, “I will go
and return to my first husband,
for it was better with me then than now.”
8 #
Isa 1.3; Ezek 16.19; Hos 8.4 She did not know
that it was I who gave her
the grain, the wine, and the oil
and who lavished upon her silver
and gold that they used for Baal.
9Therefore I will take back
my grain in its time
and my wine in its season,
and I will take away my wool and my flax,
which were to cover her nakedness.
10 #
Ezek 16.37
Now I will uncover her shame
in the sight of her lovers,
and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.
11 #
Isa 1.13, 14; Jer 7.34; 16.9; Am 8.10 I will put an end to all her mirth,
her festivals, her new moons, her Sabbaths,
and all her appointed festivals.
12 #
v 5
; Isa 5.5; Hos 13.8I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,
of which she said,
“These are my pay,
which my lovers have given me.”
I will make them a forest,
and the wild animals shall devour them.
13 #
Ezek 16.12, 17; Hos 4.6; 8.14; 13.6 I will punish her for the festival days of the Baals,
to whom she offered incense
and decked herself with her rings and jewelry
and went after her lovers
and forgot me, says the LORD.
14 #
Ezek 20.33–38
Therefore, I will now allure her
and bring her into the wilderness
and speak tenderly to her.
15 #
Ex 15.1, 2; Josh 7.26; Jer 2.2; Ezek 28.25, 26; Hos 11.1 From there I will give her her vineyards
and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope.
There she shall respond as in the days of her youth,
as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.
16On that day, says the LORD, you will call me “my husband,” and no longer will you call me “my Baal.”#2.16 That is, “my master” 17#v 13; Ex 23.13; Josh 23.7; Ps 16.4; Zech 13.2For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be mentioned by name no more. 18#Job 5.23; Ps 46.9; Isa 11.6–9; Ezek 34.25I will make for you#2.18 Heb them a covenant on that day with the wild animals, the birds of the air, and the creeping things of the ground, and I will abolish#2.18 Heb break the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you#2.18 Heb them lie down in safety. 19#Isa 1.27; 62.4, 5; Jer 3.14And I will take you for my wife forever; I will take you for my wife in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. 20#Hos 6.6; 13.4I will take you for my wife in faithfulness, and you shall know the LORD.
21On that day I will answer, says the LORD,
I will answer the heavens,
and they shall answer the earth,
22 #
Jer 31.12; Joel 2.19 and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil,
and they shall answer Jezreel,#2.22 That is, God sows
23 #
Jer 31.27; Hos 1.6, 9, 10; Zech 13.9; Rom 9.25, 26 and I will sow him#2.23 Cn: Heb her for myself in the land.
And I will have pity on Lo-ruhamah,#2.23 That is, not pitied
and I will say to Lo-ammi,#2.23 That is, not my people “You are my people,”
and he shall say, “You are my God.”
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