Hosea 2:1 Say you to
your brothers, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah. 2 Plead with your
mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her
therefore put away her prostitutions out of her sight, and her
adulteries from between her breasts; 3 Lest I strip her naked, and set
her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and
set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. 4 And I will not have
mercy on her children; for they be the children of prostitutions. 5 For
their mother has played the harlot: she that conceived them has done
shamefully: 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. 6
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and make a
wall, that she shall not find her paths. 7 And she shall follow after
her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them,
but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my
first husband; for then was it better with me than now. 8 For she did
not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her
silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal. 9 Therefore will I
return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the
season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her
nakedness.
10 And now will I
discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver
her out of my hand. 11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her
feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she has said,
These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them
a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them. 13 And I will
visit on her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and
she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after
her lovers, and forgot me, said the LORD.
14 Therefore, behold, I
will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak
comfortably to her. 15 And I will give her her vineyards from there, and
the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in
the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the
land of Egypt. 16 And it shall be at that day, said the LORD, that you
shall call me Ishi; and shall call me no more Baali. 17 For I will take
away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be
remembered by their name. 18 And in that day will I make a covenant for
them with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of heaven, and with
the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the
sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down
safely. 19 And I will betroth you to me for ever; yes, I will betroth
you to me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving kindness, and
in mercies. 20 I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness: and you
shall know the LORD. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, I will
hear, said the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the
earth; 22 And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil;
and they shall hear Jezreel. 23 And I will sow her to me in the earth;
and I will have mercy on her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say
to them which were not my people, You are my people; and they shall say,
You are my God. (AKJV)
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