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Hosea|2:1|-|Say to your brothers, |1|Ammi,And to your sisters, |2|Ruhamah.
Hosea|2:2|-|Contend with your |a|mother; contend.For she is |1|not my wife,
And I am |1|not her husband.And let her turn away her |b|harlotries from her face,
And her adulteries from between her breasts,
Hosea|2:3|-|Lest I strip her nakedAnd set her out as in the day she was |a|born
And make her a wildernessAnd make her a dry land
And slay her with thirst.
Hosea|2:4|-|And on her children I will not have compassion,For they are the children of harlotries.
Hosea|2:5|-|For their mother has gone about as a |a|harlot;She who conceived them has acted shamefully;
For she has said,I will go after my |1|lovers,
Who give me my bread and my water,My wool and my flax,
My oil and my drink.
Hosea|2:6|-|Therefore I will now hedge up|1|Her way with thorns;
And I will build up a wall against her,So that she will not find her paths.
Hosea|2:7|-|And she will pursue her loversBut will not overtake them;
And she will seek them but not find them;And she will say, |1|I will go
And |a|return to my first |b|husband,For it was better for me then than now.
Hosea|2:8|-|For she |a|did not knowThat 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 |1|used for Baal.
Hosea|2:9|-|Therefore I will take backMy 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|-|And now I will uncover her lewdnessIn the sight of her lovers,
And no one will deliver her from My hand.
Hosea|2:11|-|And I will bring all her mirth to an end,Her |a|feasts, her new moons, and her Sabbaths,
And all her appointed assemblies.
Hosea|2:12|-|And I will desolate her vine and her fig tree,Of which she said,
These are my paymentsThat my lovers have given me;
And I will make them a forest,And the beasts of the field will devour them.
Hosea|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 jewelsAnd went after her lovers
And forgot Me,Declares Jehovah.
Hosea|2:14|-|Therefore I am now luring her,And I will bring her into the |a|wilderness
And will |b|speak to her heart.
Hosea|2:15|-|And I will give her her vineyards from thereAnd the valley of |a|Achor as a door of hope;
And she will respond there as in the days of her |b|youthAnd as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
Hosea|2:16|-|And in that day, declares Jehovah,You will call Me My |a|Husband
And will no longer call Me |1|Baali.
Hosea|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|-|And I will make a |1a|covenant for themIn that day
With the beasts of the fieldAnd with the birds of heaven
And the creeping things of the earth;And bow and sword and battle
I will |b|break from the land,And I will cause them to lie down in |c|safety.
Hosea|2:19|-|And I will |a|betroth you to Myself forever;Indeed I will betroth you to Myself
In righteousness and justiceAnd in lovingkindness and compassions;
Hosea|2:20|-|Indeed I will betroth you to Myself in faithfulness,And you will know Jehovah.
Hosea|2:21|-|And in that dayI will answer, declares Jehovah;
I will answer the heavens,And they will answer the earth,
Hosea|2:22|-|And the earth will answer the |1|grainAnd the |1|new wine and the |1|fresh oil,
And they will answer Jezreel.
Hosea|2:23|-|And I will sow her for Myself in the land;And I will have compassion on |1|Lo-ruhamah,
And I will say to |2|Lo-ammi, |a|You are My people;And they will say, My God.
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