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class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Christian Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/csb/esv/hosea/2.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><section epub:type="chapter" id="csb-Hosea.2" /><A name="2"></a><a href="/hosea/2-1.htm">1</a>Call<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Hosea.2.1.1">A</a> your brothers: My Peopleand your sisters: Compassion.</blockquote><h3 class="head1">Israel’s Adultery Rebuked</h3><blockquote class="poetryblock"> <A name="3"></a><a href="/hosea/2-2.htm">2</a>Rebuke your mother; rebuke her.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.2.1">a</a>For she is not my wife and I am not her husband.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.2.2">b</a>Let her remove the promiscuous look from her face<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.2.3">c</a>and her adultery from between her breasts. <A name="4"></a><a href="/hosea/2-3.htm">3</a>Otherwise, I will strip her naked<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.3.1">a</a>and expose her as she was on the day of her birth.I will make her like a desert<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.3.2">b</a>and like a parched land,and I will let her die of thirst.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.3.3">c</a> <A name="5"></a><a href="/hosea/2-4.htm">4</a>I will have no compassion on her children<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.4.1">a</a>because they are the children of promiscuity. <A name="6"></a><a href="/hosea/2-5.htm">5</a>Yes, their mother is promiscuous;she conceived them and acted shamefully.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.5.1">a</a>For she thought, “I will follow my lovers,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.5.2">b</a>the men who give me my food and water,my wool and flax, my oil and drink.”<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.5.3">c</a> <A name="7"></a><a href="/hosea/2-6.htm">6</a>Therefore, this is what I will do:I will block her<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Hosea.2.6.1">A</a> way<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.6.1">a</a> with thorns;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.6.2">b</a>I will enclose her with a wall,so that she cannot find her paths.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.6.3">c</a> <A name="8"></a><a href="/hosea/2-7.htm">7</a>She will pursue her lovers but not catch them;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.7.1">a</a>she will look for them but not find them.Then she will think,“I will go back to my former husband,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.7.2">b</a>for then it was better for me than now.”<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.7.3">c</a> <A name="9"></a><a href="/hosea/2-8.htm">8</a>She does not recognize<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.8.1">a</a>that it is I who gave her the grain,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.8.2">b</a>the new wine, and the fresh oil.I lavished silver and gold on her,which they used for Baal. <A name="10"></a><a href="/hosea/2-9.htm">9</a>Therefore, I will take back my grain in its time<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.9.1">a</a>and my new wine in its season;I will take away my wool and linen,which were to cover her nakedness. <A name="11"></a><a href="/hosea/2-10.htm">10</a>Now I will expose her shame<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.10.1">a</a>in the sight of her lovers,and no one will rescue her from my power. <A name="12"></a><a href="/hosea/2-11.htm">11</a>I will put an end to all her celebrations:<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.11.1">a</a>her feasts,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.11.2">b</a> New Moons,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.11.3">c</a> and Sabbaths —all her festivals. <A name="13"></a><a href="/hosea/2-12.htm">12</a>I will devastate her vines and fig trees.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.12.1">a</a>She thinks that these are her wagesthat her lovers have given her.I will turn them into a thicket,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.12.2">b</a>and the wild animals will eat them.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.12.3">c</a> <A name="14"></a><a href="/hosea/2-13.htm">13</a>And I will punish her for the days of the Baals,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.13.1">a</a>to which she burned incense.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.13.2">b</a>She put on her rings and her jewelry<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.13.3">c</a>and followed her lovers,but she forgot me.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.13.4">d</a></blockquote>This is the Lord’s declaration.<h3 class="head1">Israel’s Adultery Forgiven</h3><blockquote class="poetryblock"> <A name="15"></a><a href="/hosea/2-14.htm">14</a>Therefore, I am going to persuade her,lead her to the wilderness,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.14.1">a</a>and speak tenderly to her.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Hosea.2.14.1">A</a> <A name="16"></a><a href="/hosea/2-15.htm">15</a>There I will give her vineyards back to her<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.15.1">a</a>and make the Valley of Achor<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Hosea.2.15.1">a</a> <a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.15.2">b</a>into a gateway of hope.There she will respond as she didin the days of her youth,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.15.3">c</a>as in the day she came out of the land of Egypt. <A name="17"></a><a href="/hosea/2-16.htm">16</a>In that day —this is the Lord’s declaration —you will call me “my husband”<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.16.1">a</a>and no longer call me “my Baal.”<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Hosea.2.16.1">A</a> <A name="18"></a><a href="/hosea/2-17.htm">17</a>For I will remove the names of the Baalsfrom her mouth;they will no longer be remembered by their names. <A name="19"></a><a href="/hosea/2-18.htm">18</a>On that day I will make a covenant for themwith the wild animals, the birds of the sky,and the creatures that crawl on the ground.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.18.1">a</a>I will shatter bow, sword,and weapons of war in the land<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Hosea.2.18.1">a</a> <a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.18.2">b</a>and will enable the people to rest securely.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.18.3">c</a> <A name="20"></a><a href="/hosea/2-19.htm">19</a>I will take you to be my wife forever.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.19.1">a</a>I will take you to be my wife in righteousness,justice, love, and compassion.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.19.2">b</a> <A name="21"></a><a href="/hosea/2-20.htm">20</a>I will take you to be my wife in faithfulness,and you will know the Lord.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.20.1">a</a> <A name="22"></a><a href="/hosea/2-21.htm">21</a>On that day I will respond<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.21.1">a</a> —this is the Lord’s declaration.I will respond to the sky,and it will respond to the earth. <A name="23"></a><a href="/hosea/2-22.htm">22</a>The earth will respond to the grain,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.22.1">a</a>the new wine, and the fresh oil,and they will respond to Jezreel. <a href="/hosea/2-23.htm">23</a>I will sow her<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Hosea.2.23.1">A</a> in the land for myself,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.23.1">a</a>and I will have compassion<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.23.2">b</a>on Lo-ruhamah;I will say to Lo-ammi:<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.23.3">c</a>You are my people,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.2.23.4">d</a>and he will say, “You are my God.”</blockquote> <section id="footnotes-Hosea.2" class="fnSection"><aside id="fn.Hosea.2.1.1"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.1">2:1</a> Lit Say to</aside><aside id="fn.Hosea.2.6.1"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.6">2:6</a> LXX, Syr; MT reads your</aside><aside id="fn.Hosea.2.14.1"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.14">2:14</a> Lit speak to her heart</aside><aside id="fn.Hosea.2.15.1"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.15">2:15</a> = Trouble</aside><aside id="fn.Hosea.2.16.1"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.16">2:16</a> Or my master</aside><aside id="fn.Hosea.2.18.1"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.18">2:18</a> Or war on the earth</aside><aside id="fn.Hosea.2.23.1"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.23">2:23</a> = Israel</aside> <section id="cross-references-Hosea.2" class="xrfSection"><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.2.1"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.2">2:2</a> Ezk 23:45</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.2.2"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.2">2:2</a> Is 50:1</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.2.3"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.2">2:2</a> Jr 3:1,9,13</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.3.1"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.3">2:3</a> Ezk 16:7,22,39</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.3.2"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.3">2:3</a> Is 32:13–14; Hs 13:15</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.3.3"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.3">2:3</a> Jr 14:3; Am 8:11–13</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.4.1"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.4">2:4</a> Jr 13:14</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.5.1"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.5">2:5</a> Is 1:21; Hs 3:1</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.5.2"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.5">2:5</a> Jr 2:25</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.5.3"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.5">2:5</a> Jr 44:17–18</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.6.1"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.6">2:6</a> Jb 19:8</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.6.2"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.6">2:6</a> Hs 9:6; 10:8</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.6.3"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.6">2:6</a> Jr 18:15</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.7.1"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.7">2:7</a> Hs 5:13</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.7.2"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.7">2:7</a> Jr 2:2; 3:1; Ezk 16:8; 23:4</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.7.3"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.7">2:7</a> Jr 14:22; Hs 13:6</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.8.1"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.8">2:8</a> Is 1:3</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.8.2"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.8">2:8</a> Ezk 16:19</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.9.1"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.9">2:9</a> Hs 8:7; 9:2</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.10.1"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.10">2:10</a> Ezk 16:37</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.11.1"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.11">2:11</a> Jr 7:34; 16:9</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.11.2"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.11">2:11</a> Hs 3:4; Am 5:21; 8:10</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.11.3"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.11">2:11</a> Is 1:13–14</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.12.1"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.12">2:12</a> Jr 5:17; 8:13</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.12.2"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.12">2:12</a> Ps 80:12; Is 5:5; 7:23</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.12.3"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.12">2:12</a> Is 32:13–15</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.13.1"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.13">2:13</a> Hs 4:13; 11:2</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.13.2"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.13">2:13</a> Jr 7:9</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.13.3"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.13">2:13</a> Ezk 16:12,17; 23:40</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.13.4"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.13">2:13</a> Hs 4:6; 8:14; 13:6</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.14.1"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.14">2:14</a> Ezk 20:33–38</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.15.1"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.15">2:15</a> Ezk 28:25–26</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.15.2"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.15">2:15</a> Jos 7:26</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.15.3"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.15">2:15</a> Jr 2:1–3</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.16.1"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.16">2:16</a> Is 54:5</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.18.1"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.18">2:18</a> Jb 5:23; Is 11:6–9; Ezk 34:25</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.18.2"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.18">2:18</a> Ezk 39:1–10</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.18.3"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.18">2:18</a> Ezk 34:25</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.19.1"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.19">2:19</a> Is 62:4–5</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.19.2"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.19">2:19</a> Is 1:27; 54:6–8</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.20.1"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.20">2:20</a> Hs 6:6; 13:4</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.21.1"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.21">2:21</a> Is 55:10; Zch 8:12; Mal 3:10–11</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.22.1"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.22">2:22</a> Jr 31:12; Jl 2:19</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.23.1"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.23">2:23</a> Jr 31:37</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.23.2"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.23">2:23</a> Hs 1:6</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.23.3"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.23">2:23</a> Hs 1:9</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.2.23.4"><a href="#start-Hosea.2.23">2:23</a> Hs 2:1; Rm 9:25</aside> <section id="study-notes-Hosea.2" class="snSection"> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Christian Standard Bible. 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