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HOS 2:1
Hosea 2:1
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Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your
sisters, Ruhamah. |
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HOS 2:2
Hosea 2:2
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Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not
my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out
of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; |
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HOS 2:3
Hosea 2:3
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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. |
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HOS 2:4
Hosea 2:4
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And I will not have mercy upon her children;
for they be the children of whoredoms. |
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HOS 2:5
Hosea 2:5
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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. |
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HOS 2:6
Hosea 2:6
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Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with
thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. |
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HOS 2:7
Hosea 2:7
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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. |
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HOS 2:8
Hosea 2:8
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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. |
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HOS 2:9
Hosea 2:9
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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. |
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HOS 2:10
Hosea 2:10
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And now will I discover her lewdness in the
sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand. |
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HOS 2:11
Hosea 2:11
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I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her
feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. |
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HOS 2:12
Hosea 2:12
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And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees,
whereof she hath 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. |
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HOS 2:13
Hosea 2:13
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incense to them, and she decked herself with
her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith
the LORD. |
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HOS 2:14
Hosea 2:14
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Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring
her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. |
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HOS 2:15
Hosea 2:15
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And I will give her her vineyards from thence,
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. |
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HOS 2:16
Hosea 2:16
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And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD,
that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali. |
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HOS 2:17
Hosea 2:17
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For I will take away the names of Baalim out
of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name. |
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HOS 2:18
Hosea 2:18
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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. |
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HOS 2:19
Hosea 2:19
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And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea,
I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness,
and in mercies. |
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HOS 2:20
Hosea 2:20
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I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness:
and thou shalt know the LORD. |
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HOS 2:21
Hosea 2:21
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And it shall come to pass in that day, I will
hear, saith the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; |
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HOS 2:22
Hosea 2:22
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And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine,
and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel. |
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HOS 2:23
Hosea 2:23
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And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and
I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them
which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my
God. |
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