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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Brenton</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/hosea/2-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Israel’s Adultery Rebuked<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Say to your brother, My people, and to your sister, Pitied.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband: and I will remove her fornication out of my presence, and her adultery from between her breasts:<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>that I may strip her naked, and make her again as she was at the day of her birth: and I will make her desolate, and make her as a dry land, and will kill her with thirst.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are children of fornication.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And their mother went a-whoring: she that bore them disgraced <i>them</i>: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, and my garments, and my linen clothes, my oil and my necessaries.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Therefore, behold, I hedge up her way with thorns, and I will stop the ways, and she shall not find her path.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And she shall follow after her lovers, and shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: and she shall say, I will go, and return to my former husband; for it was better with me than now.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And she knew not that I gave her her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied silver to her: but she made silver and gold <i>images</i> for Baal.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Therefore I will return, and take away my corn in its season, and my wine in its time; and I will take away my raiment and my linen clothes, so that she shall not cover her nakedness.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And now I will expose her uncleanness before her lovers, and no one shall by any means deliver her out of my hand.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And I will take away all her gladness, her feasts, and her festivals at the new moon, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And I will utterly destroy her vines, and her fig-trees, all things of which she said, These are my hire which my lovers have given me: and I will make them a testimony, and the wild beasts of the field, and the birds of the sky, and the reptiles of the earth shall devour them.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And I will recompense on her the days of Baalim, wherein she sacrificed to them, and put on her ear-rings, and her necklaces, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith the Lord.<p> <A name="15"></a><p class="hdg">God’s Mercy to Israel<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Therefore, behold, I <i>will</i> cause her to err, and will make her as desolate, and will speak comfortably to her.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And I will giver her possessions from thence, and the valley of Achor to open her understanding: and she shall be afflicted there according to the days of her infancy, and according to the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, <i>that</i> she shall call me, My husband, and shall no longer call me Baalim.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and their names shall be remembered no more at all.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And I will make for them in that day a covenant with the wild beasts of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the reptiles of the earth: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle from off the earth, and will cause thee to dwell safely.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And I will betroth thee to myself for ever; yea, I will betroth thee to myself in righteousness, and in judgment, and in mercy, and in tender compassions;<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>and I will betroth thee to myself in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, I will hearken to the heaven, and it shall hearken to the earth;<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and the earth shall hearken to the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hearken to Jezrael.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And I will sow her to me on the earth; and will love her that was not loved, and will say to that which was not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art the Lord my God.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../hosea/1.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Hosea 1"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Hosea 1" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../hosea/3.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Hosea 3"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Hosea 3" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>