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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Hosea 2 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/hosea/2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/hosea/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Hosea 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../hosea/1.htm" title="Hosea 1">◄</a> Hosea 2 <a href="../hosea/3.htm" title="Hosea 3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><p class="m"><span class="v28_2_1"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.2.1" class="v28_2_1">1</span>So call your fellow Israelites “God's People” and “Loved-by-the-Lord.”</span></p><h3 class="s">Unfaithful Gomer—Unfaithful Israel</h3><p class="par"><span class="v28_2_2"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.2.2" class="v28_2_2">2</span>My children, plead with your mother—though she is no longer a wife to me, and I am no longer her husband. Plead with her to stop her adultery and prostitution. </span><span class="v28_2_3"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.2.3" class="v28_2_3">3</span>If she does not, I will strip her as naked as she was on the day she was born. I will make her like a dry and barren land, and she will die of thirst. </span><span class="v28_2_4"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.2.4-Hos.2.5" class="v28_2_4">4-5</span>I will not show mercy to her children; they are the children of a shameless prostitute.<a href="#fn" id="link_Hos.2.4-Hos.2.5!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> She herself said, “I will go to my lovers—they give me food and water, wool and linen, olive oil and wine.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v28_2_6"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.2.6" class="v28_2_6">6</span>So I am going to fence her in with thorn bushes and build a wall to block her way. </span><span class="v28_2_7"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.2.7" class="v28_2_7">7</span>She will run after her lovers but will not catch them. She will look for them but will not find them. Then she will say, “I am going back to my first husband—I was better off then than I am now.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v28_2_8"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.2.8" class="v28_2_8">8</span>She would never acknowledge that I am the one who gave her the grain, the wine, the olive oil, and all the silver and gold that she used in the worship of Baal. </span><span class="v28_2_9"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.2.9" class="v28_2_9">9</span>So at harvest time I will take back my gifts of grain and wine, and will take away the wool and the linen I gave her for clothing. </span><span class="v28_2_10"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.2.10" class="v28_2_10">10</span>I will strip her naked in front of her lovers, and no one will be able to save her from my power. </span><span class="v28_2_11"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.2.11" class="v28_2_11">11</span>I will put an end to all her festivities—her annual and monthly festivals and her Sabbath celebrations—all her religious meetings. </span><span class="v28_2_12"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.2.12" class="v28_2_12">12</span>I will destroy her grapevines and her fig trees, which she said her lovers gave her for serving them. I will turn her vineyards and orchards into a wilderness; wild animals will destroy them. </span><span class="v28_2_13"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.2.13" class="v28_2_13">13</span>I will punish her for the times that she forgot me, when she burned incense to Baal and put on her jewelry to go chasing after her lovers. The <span class="nd">Lord</span> has spoken.</span></p><h3 class="s">The <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s Love for His People</h3><p class="par"><span class="v28_2_14"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.2.14" class="v28_2_14">14</span>So I am going to take her into the desert again; there I will win her back with words of love. </span><span class="v28_2_15"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.2.15" class="v28_2_15">15</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Hos.2.15!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> I will give back to her the vineyards she had and make Trouble Valley a door of hope. She will respond to me there as she did when she was young, when she came from Egypt. </span><span class="v28_2_16"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.2.16" class="v28_2_16">16</span>Then once again she will call me her husband—she will no longer call me her Baal.<a href="#fn" id="link_Hos.2.16!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v28_2_17"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.2.17" class="v28_2_17">17</span>I will never let her speak the name of Baal again.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v28_2_18"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.2.18" class="v28_2_18">18</span>At that time I will make a covenant with all the wild animals and birds, so that they will not harm my people. I will also remove all weapons of war from the land, all swords and bows, and will let my people live in peace and safety.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v28_2_19"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.2.19" class="v28_2_19">19</span>Israel, I will make you my wife;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v28_2_19">I will be true and faithful;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v28_2_19">I will show you constant love and mercy</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v28_2_19">and make you mine forever.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v28_2_20"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.2.20" class="v28_2_20">20</span>I will keep my promise and make you mine,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v28_2_20">and you will acknowledge me as <span class="nd">Lord</span>.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v28_2_21"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.2.21-Hos.2.22" class="v28_2_21">21-22</span>At that time I will answer the prayers of my people Israel.<a href="#fn" id="link_Hos.2.21-Hos.2.22!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v28_2_21">I will make rain fall on the earth,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v28_2_21">and the earth will produce grain and grapes and olives.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v28_2_23"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.2.23" class="v28_2_23">23</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Hos.2.23!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> I will establish my people in the land and make them prosper.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v28_2_23">I will show love to those who were called “Unloved,”</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v28_2_23">and to those who were called “Not-My-People”</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v28_2_23">I will say, “You are my people,”</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v28_2_23">and they will answer, “You are our God.”</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">2.4-5: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">the children of a shameless prostitute; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">as shameless as their mother, a prostitute.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">2.16: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">Baal: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">This title of the Canaanite god means “Lord”; another meaning of the word is “husband.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">2.21-22: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">Israel: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew text here refers to Israel as Jezreel (see 1.4, 11).</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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