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My People">b</a></span> and your sisters ‘Ruhamah.’”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:1 Lit. Beloved; i.e. in contrast to the names Lo-Ruhamah and Lo-Ammi in vv. 2:6-9">c</a></span> </p> <p class="heading">Gomer is Rebuked</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Call your mother to account, call her—</p> <p class="poetry2">for she is not my wife,</p> <p class="poetry2">and I’m not her husband.</p> <p class="poetry2">Let her do away with her seductive looks</p> <p class="poetry2">and remove her adultery from between her breasts.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Otherwise, I’ll strip her naked—</p> <p class="poetry2">as she was on the day she was born—</p> <p class="poetry2">make her like a wilderness,</p> <p class="poetry2">turn her into a parched land,</p> <p class="poetry2">and cause her to die of thirst.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Furthermore, I’ll not show pity on her children,</p> <p class="poetry2">since they are children of prostitution.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Indeed, their mother has committed prostitution—</p> <p class="poetry2">the one who has been conceiving them has acted disgracefully—</p> <p class="poetry2">when she said,</p> <p class="poetry2">‘I’m going after my lovers,</p> <p class="poetry2">who provide me food and water,</p> <p class="poetry2">as well as my wool, my flax,</p> <p class="poetry2">my oil, and my wine.’</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“Look how I’m blocking her<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:6 So with LXX. MT reads your">d</a></span> path with thorns</p> <p class="poetry2">and building a wall to hinder<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:6 Lit. wall against">e</a></span> her,</p> <p class="poetry2">so she can’t find her way.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>She will pursue her lovers,</p> <p class="poetry2">but she won’t catch up with them.</p> <p class="poetry2">She will seek them,</p> <p class="poetry2">but she won’t find them.</p> <p class="poetry2">Then she will say,</p> <p class="poetry2">‘I’ll go back and return to my first husband,</p> <p class="poetry2">because it was better for me then than now.’</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>She didn’t recognize</p> <p class="poetry2">that it was I who provided her grain, wine, and oil,</p> <p class="poetry2">and it was I who gave her silver,</p> <p class="poetry2">while they crafted gold for Baal.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“Therefore I’ll return</p> <p class="poetry2">and take back my grain at harvest time</p> <p class="poetry2">and my new wine in its season.</p> <p class="poetry2">I’ll take back my wool and my flax</p> <p class="poetry2">that was to have covered her nakedness.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So now I’ll reveal her lewdness to the eyes of her lovers,</p> <p class="poetry2">and no man will rescue her from my control.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:10 Lit. hand">f</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I’ll put a stop to her mirth,</p> <p class="poetry2">along with her celebrations, her New Moons, her Sabbaths,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:11 So with LXX. MT reads Sabbath">g</a></span> and all of her festive assemblies.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I’ll destroy her vines and her fig trees,</p> <p class="poetry2">about which she said,</p> <p class="poetry2">‘These are the earnings that my lovers paid me.</p> <p class="poetry2">I’ll make them grow into a forest,</p> <p class="poetry2">and the wild animals will eat from them.’</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I’ll punish her for the time she has devoted to the Baals,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:13 Lit. for the days of the Baalim; i.e. Canaanite deities">h</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">to whom she burned incense,</p> <p class="poetry2">and for whom she put on her earrings and jewels</p> <p class="poetry2">so she could go after her lovers and forget me,”</p> <p class="poetry2">declares the LORD.</p> <p class="heading">Alluring a Wayward Wife</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“Therefore, look! I will now allure her.</p> <p class="poetry2">I will make her go out to the wilderness,</p> <p class="poetry2">and will speak to her heart.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>There I will restore her vineyards to her,</p> <p class="poetry2">and the Valley of Achor will become a doorway to hope.</p> <p class="poetry2">There she will respond as she did in her youth,</p> <p class="poetry2">when she came up from Egypt.”</p> <p class="heading">The Restoration of Israel</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“It will come about at that time,”</p> <p class="poetry2">declares the LORD,</p> <p class="poetry2">“that you will address me as ‘My husband,’</p> <p class="poetry2">and you will no longer call me ‘My master’.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:16 Heb. baali, a word play alluding to the Canaanite deity of a similar name">i</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I will remove the names of the Baals<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:17 i.e. Canaanite deities">j</a></span> from her vocabulary<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:17 Lit. mouth">k</a></span> —</p> <p class="poetry2">they will not be remembered by their names anymore.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>I will make a covenant with them at that time,</p> <p class="poetry2">a covenant<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:18 The Heb. lacks a covenant">l</a></span> with the wild animals of the field,</p> <p class="poetry2">with the birds of the air,</p> <p class="poetry2">and with the creatures of the ground.</p> <p class="poetry2">I will banish<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:18 Lit. break">m</a></span> the battle bow, the sword, and war from the earth.</p> <p class="poetry2">I will cause my people<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:18 Lit. cause them">n</a></span> to lie down where it is safe.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>I will make you my wife forever—</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop">I will make you my wife in a way that is righteous,</p> <p class="poetry2">in a manner that is just,</p> <p class="poetry2">by a love that is gracious,</p> <p class="poetry2">and by a motive that is mercy.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>I will make you my wife because of my<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:20 Lit. wife in">o</a></span> faithfulness,</p> <p class="poetry2">and you will know the LORD.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“It will come about at that time that I will respond,”</p> <p class="poetry2">declares the LORD,</p> <p class="poetry2">“I will respond to the heavens,</p> <p class="poetry2">and they will respond to the earth.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The earth will respond with grain, new wine, and oil,</p> <p class="poetry2">and they will respond to Jezreel.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:22 The Heb. name Jezreel means God sows">p</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>I will plant my people<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:23 Lit. planted her">q</a></span> in the land for myself.</p> <p class="poetry2">I will show mercy on her who has received no mercy<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:23 Heb. on Lo-Ruhamah">r</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">I will say to those who are not my people,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:23 Heb. to Lo-Ammi">s</a></span> ‘You are my people!’</p> <p class="poetry2">and they will say, ‘You are<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:23 The Heb. lacks You are">t</a></span> my God.’”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 2:1 This vs. is 2:3 in MT, and so throughout the chapter.<br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 2:1 Lit. <i>My People</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 2:1 Lit. <i>Beloved</i>; i.e. in contrast to the names <i>Lo-Ruhamah</i> and <i>Lo-Ammi </i>in vv. 2:6-9<br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 2:6 So with LXX. MT reads <i>your</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 2:6 Lit. <i>wall against</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 2:10 Lit. <i>hand</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 2:11 So with LXX. MT reads <i>Sabbath</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 2:13 Lit. <i>for the days of the Baalim</i>; i.e. Canaanite deities<br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 2:16 Heb. <i>baali</i>, a word play alluding to the Canaanite deity of a similar name<br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 2:17 i.e. Canaanite deities<br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 2:17 Lit. <i>mouth</i><br /><span class="fnb">l</span> 2:18 The Heb. lacks <i>a covenant</i><br /><span class="fnb">m</span> 2:18 Lit. <i>break</i><br /><span class="fnb">n</span> 2:18 Lit. <i>cause them</i><br /><span class="fnb">o</span> 2:20 Lit. <i>wife in</i><br /><span class="fnb">p</span> 2:22 The Heb. name <i>Jezreel</i> means <i>God sows</i><br /><span class="fnb">q</span> 2:23 Lit. <i>planted her</i><br /><span class="fnb">r</span> 2:23 Heb. <i>on Lo-Ruhamah</i><br /><span class="fnb">s</span> 2:23 Heb. <i>to Lo-Ammi</i><br /><span class="fnb">t</span> 2:23 The Heb. lacks <i>You are</i><br /></span><br><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1<br />Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></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></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/hosea/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>