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Hosea 2 📜 📕 ↷
Israel's Adultery Rebuked
1 SAY ye to your brethren: My people: and to your sister, She that hath obtained mercy.📜💬📚
2 Judge your mother, judge ye: because she not my wife, and I not her husband. Let her take away fornications from her face, and her adulteries from the midst of her breasts.📜💬📚
3 Lest perhaps I strip her naked, and set her according to the day of her nativity: and I will lay her as a wilderness, and will set her as a land unpassable, and will kill her with drought.📜💬📚
4 And I will not have mercy on her children: because they are the children of fornications:📜💬📚
5 because their mother hath fornicated, she is confounded that conceived them: because she said: I will go after my lovers, that give me my breads, & my waters, my wool, and my flax, mine oil, & my drink.📜💬📚
6 For this behold I will hedge thy way with thorns, and I will hedge it with a wall, & she shall not find her paths.📜💬📚
7 And she shall follow her lovers, and shall not overtake them: and she shall seek them, and shall not find, and she shall say: I will go, and will return to my former husband: because it was well with me then, more than now.📜💬📚
8 And she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied silver unto her, & gold, which they have made to Baal.📜💬📚
9 Therefore will I return, and will take my corn in his time, and my wine in his time, and I will deliver my wool, and my flax, which covered her ignominy.📜💬📚
10 And now I will reveal her folly in the eyes of her lovers: and there shall not a man deliver her out of my hand:📜💬📚
11 and I will make all her joy to cease, her solemnity, her new-moon, her sabbath, & all her festival times.📜💬📚
12 And I will destroy her vine, and her figtree, of which she said: These are my rewards, which my lovers have given me: and I will lay her as a forest, & the beast of the field shall eat her.📜💬📚
13 And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, to whom she burnt incense, and was adorned with her earlet, and with her tablet, & went after her lovers, & forgot me, saith our Lord.📜💬📚
God's Mercy to Israel
14 For this, lo I will allure her, and will lead her into the wilderness: and I will speak to her heart.📜💬📚
15 And I will give her dressers of vines out of the same place, and the vale of Achor to open hope: and she shall sing there according to the days of her youth, and according to the days of her ascending out of the Land of AEgypt.📜💬📚
16 And it shall be in that day, saith our Lord: She shall call me: My husband, and she shall call me no more, Baalim.📜💬📚
17 And I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and she shall no more remember their name.📜💬📚
18 And I will make with them a league in that day, with the beast of the field, and with the fowl of the heaven, and with that, which creepeth on the earth: and bow, and sword, and battle I will destroy out of the earth: and will make them sleep confidently.📜💬📚
19 And I will despouse thee to me for ever: and I will despouse thee to me in justice, and judgement, and in mercy, and in commiserations.📜💬📚
20 And I will despouse thee to me in faith: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.📜💬📚
21 And it shall be in that day: I will hear, saith our Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth.📜💬📚
22 And the earth shall hear wheat, and wine, and oil: and these shall hear Jezrahel.📜💬📚
23 And I will sow her unto me into the earth, and I will have mercy on her, that was without mercy.📜💬📚
24 And I will say to Not my people: My people art thou: and it shall say: Thou art my God.📜💬📚
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