Hosea 2
2
1Call # Lit Say to your brothers: My People
and your sisters: Compassion.
Israel’s Adultery Rebuked
2Rebuke your mother; rebuke her. # Ezk 23:45
For she is not My wife and I am not her husband. # Is 50:1
Let her remove the promiscuous look from her face # Jr 3:1,9,13
and her adultery from between her breasts.
3Otherwise, I will strip her naked # Ezk 16:7,22,39
and expose her as she was on the day of her birth.
I will make her like a desert # Is 32:13-14; Hs 13:15
and like a parched land,
and I will let her die of thirst. # Jr 14:3; Am 8:11-13
4I will have no compassion on her children # Jr 13:14
because they are the children of promiscuity.
5Yes, their mother is promiscuous;
she conceived them and acted shamefully. # Is 1:21; Hs 3:1
For she thought, “I will go after my lovers, # Jr 2:25
the men who give me my food and water,
my wool and flax, my oil and drink.” # Jr 44:17-18
6Therefore, this is what I will do:
I will block her # LXX, Syr; MT reads your way # Jb 19:8 with thorns; # Hs 9:6; 10:8
I will enclose her with a wall,
so that she cannot find her paths. # Jr 18:15
7She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; # Hs 5:13
she will seek them but not find them.
Then she will think,
“I will go back to my former husband, # Jr 2:2; 3:1; Ezk 16:8; 23:4
for then it was better for me than now.” # Jr 14:22; Hs 13:6
8She does not recognize # Is 1:3
that it is I who gave her the grain, # Ezk 16:19
the new wine, and the oil.
I lavished silver and gold on her,
which they used for Baal.
9Therefore, I will take back My grain in its time # Hs 8:7; 9:2
and My new wine in its season;
I will take away My wool and linen,
which were to cover her nakedness.
10Now I will expose her shame # Ezk 16:37
in the sight of her lovers,
and no one will rescue her from My hands.
11I will put an end to all her celebrations: # Jr 7:34; 16:9
her feasts, # Hs 3:4; Am 5:21; 8:10 New Moons, # Is 1:13-14 and Sabbaths —
all her festivals.
12I will devastate her vines and fig trees. # Jr 5:17; 8:13
She thinks that these are her wages
that her lovers have given her.
I will turn them into a thicket, # Ps 80:12; Is 5:5; 7:23
and the wild animals will eat them. # Is 32:13-15
13And I will punish her for the days of the Baals # Hs 4:13; 11:2
when she burned incense to them, # Jr 7:9
put on her rings and jewelry, # Ezk 16:12,17; 23:40
and went after her lovers,
but forgot Me. # Hs 4:6; 8:14; 13:6
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Israel’s Adultery Forgiven
14Therefore, I am going to persuade her,
lead her to the wilderness, # Ezk 20:33-38
and speak tenderly to her. # Lit speak to her heart
15There I will give her vineyards back to her # Ezk 28:25-26
and make the Valley of Achor # = Trouble # Jos 7:26
into a gateway of hope.
There she will respond as she did
in the days of her youth, # Jr 2:1-3
as in the day she came out of the land of Egypt.
16In that day —
this is the Lord’s declaration —
you will call Me, “My husband,” # Is 54:5
and no longer call Me, “My Baal.” # Or My master
17For I will remove the names of the Baals
from her mouth;
they will no longer be remembered by their names.
18On that day I will make a covenant for them
with the wild animals, the birds of the sky,
and the creatures that crawl on the ground. # Jb 5:23; Is 11:6-9; Ezk 34:25
I will shatter bow, sword,
and weapons of war in the land # Or war on the earth # Ezk 39:1-10
and will enable the people to rest securely. # Ezk 34:25
19I will take you to be My wife forever. # Is 62:4-5
I will take you to be My wife in righteousness,
justice, love, and compassion. # Is 1:27; 54:6-8
20I will take you to be My wife in faithfulness,
and you will know Yahweh. # Hs 6:6; 13:4
21On that day I will respond # Is 55:10; Zch 8:12; Mal 3:10-11 —
this is the Lord’s declaration.
I will respond to the sky,
and it will respond to the earth.
22The earth will respond to the grain, # Jr 31:12; Jl 2:19
the new wine, and the oil,
and they will respond to Jezreel.
23I will sow her # = Israel in the land for Myself, # Jr 31:37
and I will have compassion # Hs 1:6
on No Compassion;
I will say # Rm 9:25 to Not My People: # Hs 1:9
You are My people, # Hs 2:1
and he will say, “You are My God.”
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Osee (Hosea) 2
2
1Say ye to your brethren: You are my people, and to your sister: Thou hast obtained mercy.
2Judge your mother, judge her: because she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her put away her fornications from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts.
3Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born: and I will make her as a wilderness, and will set her as a land that none can pass through, and will kill her with drought.
4And I will not have mercy on her children: for they are the children of fornications.
5For their mother hath committed fornication, she that conceived them is covered with shame: for she said: I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread, and my water, my wool, and my flax, my oil, and my drink.
6Wherefore behold I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will stop it up with a wall, and she shall not find her paths.
7And she shall follow after her lovers, and shall not overtake them: and she shall seek them, and shall not find, and she shall say: I will go, and return to my first husband, because it was better with me then, than now.
8And she did not know that I gave her corn and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver, and gold, which they have used in the service of Baal.
9Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in its season, and my wine in its season, and I will set at liberty my wool, and my flax, which covered her disgrace.
10And now I will lay open her folly in the eyes of her lovers: and no man shall deliver her out of my hand:
11And I will cause all her mirth to cease, her solemnities, her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her festival times.
12And I will destroy her vines, and her fig trees, of which she said: These are my rewards, which my lovers have given me: and I will make her as a forest, and the beasts of the field shall devour her.
13And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, to whom she burnt incense, and decked herself out with her earrings, and with her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith the Lord.
14Therefore, behold I will allure her, and will lead her into the wilderness: and I will speak to her heart.
15And I will give her vinedressers out of the same place, and the valley of Achor for an opening of hope: and she shall sing there according to the days of her youth, and according to the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.
16And it shall be in that day, saith the Lord, That she shall call me: My husband, and she shall call me no more Baali.
17And I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and she shall no more remember their name.
18And in that day I will make a covenant with them, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the air, and with the creeping things of the earth: and I will destroy the bow, and the sword, and war out of the land: and I will make them sleep secure.
19And I will espouse thee to me for ever: and I will espouse thee to me in justice, and judgment, and in mercy, and in commiserations.
20And I will espouse thee to me in faith: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
21And it shall come to pass in that day: I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth.
22And the earth shall hear the core, and the wine, and the oil, and these shall hear Jezrahel.
23And I will sow her unto me in the earth, and I will have mercy on her that was without mercy.
24And I will say to that which was not my people: Thou art my people: and they shall say: Thou art my God.
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