Hosea 2
:1
2:1
Say to your brothers,
1Ammi,
And to your sisters,
2Ruhamah.
C.
The harlotries of the wife of the prophet Hosea
2:2-13
Hosea 2
:2
2:2
Contend with your
amother; contend.
For she is not my wife,
And I am
1not her husband.
And let her turn away her
bharlotries from her face,
And her adulteries from between her breasts,
Hosea 2
:3
2:3
Lest I strip her naked
And set her out as in the day she was
aborn And make her a wilderness
And make her a dry land
And slay her with thirst.
Hosea 2
:4
2:4
And on her children I will not have compassion,
For they are the children of harlotries.
Hosea 2
:5
2:5
For their mother has gone about as a
aharlot;
She who conceived them has acted shamefully;
For she has said,
I will go after my
1lovers,
Who give
me my bread and my water,
My wool and my flax,
My oil and my drink.
Hosea 2
:6
2:6
Therefore I will now hedge up
1Her way with thorns;
And I will build up a wall against her,
So that she will not find her paths.
Hosea 2
:7
2:7
And she will pursue her lovers
But will not overtake them;
And she will seek them but not find
them;
And she will say,
1I will go
And
areturn to my first
bhusband,
For it was better for me then than now.
Hosea 2
:8
2:8
For she
adid not know
That it was I who gave her
The grain and the new wine and the fresh oil,
And who multiplied to her silver
And gold, which they
1used for Baal.
Hosea 2
:9
2:9
Therefore I will take back
My grain in its time
And My new wine in its appointed season,
And I will snatch away My wool and My flax,
Which were to cover her nakedness.
Hosea 2
:10
2:10
And now I will uncover her lewdness
In the sight of her lovers,
And no one will deliver her from My hand.
Hosea 2
:11
2:11
And I will bring all her mirth to an end,
Her
afeasts, her new moons, and her Sabbaths,
And all her appointed assemblies.
Hosea 2
:12
2:12
And I will desolate her vine and her fig tree,
Of which she said,
These are my payments
That my lovers have given me;
And I will make them a forest,
And the beasts of the field will devour them.
Hosea 2
:13
2:13
And I will visit the days of the Baals upon her,
In which she burned incense to them
And adorned herself with her nose rings and her jewels
And went after her lovers
And forgot Me,
Declares Jehovah.
D.
Jehovah's restoration of the adulterous and apostate Israel
2:14-23
Hosea 2
:14
2:14
Therefore I am now luring her,
And I will bring her into the
awilderness And will
bspeak to her heart.
Hosea 2
:15
2:15
And I will give her her vineyards from there
And the valley of
aAchor as a door of hope;
And she will respond there as in the days of her
byouth And as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
Hosea 2
:16
2:16
And in that day, declares Jehovah,
You will call
Me My
aHusband And will no longer call Me
1Baali.
Hosea 2
:17
2:17
For I will take away the names of the Baals from her mouth,
And they will no longer be remembered by their name.
Hosea 2
:18
2:18
And I will make a
1acovenant for them
In that day
With the beasts of the field
And with the birds of heaven
And the creeping things of the earth;
And bow and sword and battle
I will
bbreak from the land,
And I will cause them to lie down in
csafety.
Hosea 2
:19
2:19
And I will
abetroth you to Myself forever;
Indeed I will betroth you to Myself
In righteousness and justice
And in lovingkindness and compassions;
Hosea 2
:20
2:20
Indeed I will betroth you to Myself in faithfulness,
And you will know Jehovah.
Hosea 2
:21
2:21
And in that day
I will answer, declares Jehovah;
I will answer the heavens,
And they will answer the earth,
Hosea 2
:22
2:22
And the earth will answer the
1grain And the
1new wine and the
1fresh oil,
And they will answer Jezreel.
Hosea 2
:23
2:23
And I will sow her for Myself in the land;
And I will have compassion on
1Lo-ruhamah,
And I will say to
2Lo-ammi,
aYou are My people;
And they will say, My God.
