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Hosea 2

Israel's Unfaithfulness Condemned

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 1Say to your brothers, " 2Ammi," and to your sisters, " 3Ruhamah."

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"Contend with your mother,  acontend, For she is  bnot my wife, and I am not her husband; And let her put away her  charlotry from her face And her adultery from between her breasts,

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Or I will strip her  anaked And expose her as on the  bday when she was born. I will also  cmake her like a wilderness, Make her like desert land And slay her with  dthirst.

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"Also, I will have no compassion on her children, Because they are  achildren of harlotry.

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"For their mother has  aplayed the harlot; She who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, ` aI will go after my lovers, Who  bgive me my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, my  coil and my drink.'

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"Therefore, behold, I will  ahedge up  1her way with  bthorns, And I will build  2a wall against her so that she cannot find her  cpaths.

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"She will  apursue her lovers, but she will not overtake them; And she will seek them, but will not find them. Then she will say, ` bI will go back to my  cfirst husband, For it was  dbetter for me then than now!'

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"For she does  anot know that it was  bI who gave her the grain, the new wine and the oil, And lavished on her silver and gold, Which they  1used for Baal.

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"Therefore, I will  atake back My grain at  1harvest time And My new wine in its season. I will also take away My wool and My flax Given to cover her nakedness.

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"And then I will  auncover her lewdness In the sight of her lovers, And no one will rescue her out of My hand.

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"I will also  aput an end to all her gaiety, Her  bfeasts, her  cnew moons, her sabbaths And all her festal assemblies.

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"I will  adestroy her vines and fig trees, Of which she said, `These are my wages Which my lovers have given me.' And I will  bmake them a forest, And the  cbeasts of the field will devour them.

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"I will punish her for the  adays of the Baals When she used to  1 boffer sacrifices to them And  cadorn herself with her  2earrings and jewelry, And follow her lovers, so that she  dforgot Me," declares the LORD.

Restoration of Israel

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"Therefore, behold, I will allure her,  aBring her into the wilderness And speak  1kindly to her.

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"Then I will give her her  avineyards from there, And  bthe valley of Achor as a door of hope. And she will  1 csing there as in the days of her youth, As in the  dday when she came up from the land of Egypt.

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"It will come about in that day," declares the LORD, "That you will call Me  1 aIshi And will no longer call Me  2Baali.

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"For  aI will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, So that they will be  1mentioned by their names no more.

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"In that day I will also make a covenant for them With the  abeasts of the field, The birds of the sky And the creeping things of the ground. And I will  1 babolish the bow, the sword and war from the land, And will make them  clie down in safety.

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"I will  abetroth you to Me forever; Yes, I will betroth you to Me in  brighteousness and in justice, In lovingkindness and in compassion,

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And I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness. Then you will  aknow the LORD.

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"It will come about in that day that  aI will respond," declares the LORD. "I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth,

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And the  aearth will respond to the grain, to the new wine and to the oil, And they will respond to  1Jezreel.

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"I will  asow her for Myself in the land.  bI will also have compassion on  1her who had not obtained compassion, And  cI will say to  2those who were  dnot My people, `You are My people!' And  3they will say, `You are my God!' "



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