Hosea 2
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| v | JPS1917 |
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| 1 | Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that, instead of that which was said unto them: ‘Ye are not My people’, it shall be said unto them: ‘Ye are the children of the living God.’ |
| 2 | And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint themselves one head, and shall go up out of the land; for great shall be the day of Jezreel. |
| 3 | Say ye unto your brethren: ‘Ammi’; and to your sisters, ‘Ruhamah.’ |
| 4 | Plead with your mother, plead; For she is not My wife, neither am I her husband; And let her put away her harlotries from her face, And her adulteries from between her breasts; |
| 5 | 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. |
| 6 | And I will not have compassion upon her children; For they are children of harlotry. |
| 7 | For their mother hath played the harlot, She that conceived them hath done shamefully; For she said: ‘I will go after my lovers, That give me my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.’ |
| 8 | Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, And I will make a wall against her, That she shall not find her paths. |
| 9 | And she shall run 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.’ |
| 10 | For she did not know that it was I that gave her The corn, and the wine, and the oil, And multiplied unto her silver and gold, Which they used for Baal. |
| 11 | Therefore will I take back My corn in the time thereof, And My wine in the season thereof, And will snatch away My wool and My flax Given to cover her nakedness. |
| 12 | And now will I uncover her shame in the sight of her lovers, And none shall deliver her out of My hand. |
| 13 | I will also cause all her mirth to cease, Her feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths, And all her appointed seasons. |
| 14 | And I will lay waste her vines and her fig-trees, Whereof she hath said: ‘These are my hire That my lovers have given me’; And I will make them a forest, And the beasts of the field shall eat them. |
| 15 | And I will visit upon her the days of the Baalim, Wherein she offered unto them, And decked herself with her ear-rings and her jewels, And went after her lovers, And forgot Me, saith the LORD. |
| 16 | Therefore, behold, I will allure her, And bring her into the wilderness, And speak tenderly unto her. |
| 17 | And I will give her her vineyards from thence, And the valley of Achor for a door of hope; And she shall respond there, as in the days of her youth, And as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. |
| 18 | And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, That thou shalt call Me Ishi, And shalt call Me no more Baali. |
| 19 | For I will take away the names of the Baalim out of her mouth, And they shall no more be mentioned by their name. |
| 20 | 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 land, And will make them to lie down safely. |
| 21 | And I will betroth thee unto Me for ever; Yea, I will betroth thee unto Me in righteousness, and in justice, And in lovingkindness, and in compassion. |
| 22 | And I will betroth thee unto Me in faithfulness; And thou shalt know the LORD. |
| 23 | And it shall come to pass in that day, I will respond, saith the LORD, I will respond to the heavens, And they shall respond to the earth; |
| 24 | And the earth shall respond to the corn, and the wine, and the oil; And they shall respond to Jezreel. |
| 25 | And I will sow her unto Me in the land; And I will have compassion upon her that had not obtained compassion; And I will say to them that were not My people: ‘Thou art My people’; And they shall say: ‘Thou art my God.’ |