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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">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-1.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Say ye unto your brethren: ‘<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn">c</a></span>Ammi’; and to your sisters, ‘<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn">d</a></span>Ruhamah.’ <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-2.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Plead with your mother, plead;</div><div class="po2">For she is not My wife, neither am I her husband;</div><div class="po2">And let her put away her harlotries from her face, And her adulteries from between her breasts;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-3.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Lest I strip her naked,</div><div class="po2">And set her as in the day that she was born,</div><div class="po2">And make her as a wilderness,</div><div class="po2">And set her like a dry land,</div><div class="po2">And slay her with thirst.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-4.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And I will not have compassion upon her children;</div><div class="po2">For they are children of harlotry.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-5.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For their mother hath played the harlot,</div><div class="po2">She that conceived them hath done shamefully;</div><div class="po2">For she said: ‘I will go after my lovers,</div><div class="po2">That give me my bread and my water,</div><div class="po2">My wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-6.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns,</div><div class="po2">And I will make a wall against her,</div><div class="po2">That she shall not find her paths.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-7.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And she shall run after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them,</div><div class="po2">And she shall seek them, but shall not find them;</div><div class="po2">Then shall she say: ‘I will go and return to my first husband;</div><div class="po2">For then was it better with me than now.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-8.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For she did not know that it was I that gave her</div><div class="po2">The corn, and the wine, and the oil,</div><div class="po2">And multiplied unto her silver and gold,</div><div class="po2">Which they used for Baal.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-9.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Therefore will I take back My corn in the time thereof,</div><div class="po2">And My wine in the season thereof,</div><div class="po2">And will snatch away My wool and My flax</div><div class="po2">Given to cover her nakedness.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-10.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And now will I uncover her shame in the sight of her lovers,</div><div class="po2">And none shall deliver her out of My hand.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-11.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I will also cause all her mirth to cease,</div><div class="po2">Her feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths,</div><div class="po2">And all her appointed seasons.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-12.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And I will lay waste her vines and her fig-trees,</div><div class="po2">Whereof she hath said: ‘These are my hire</div><div class="po2">That my lovers have given me’;</div><div class="po2">And I will make them a forest,</div><div class="po2">And the beasts of the field shall eat them.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-13.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And I will visit upon her the days of the Baalim,</div><div class="po2">Wherein she offered unto them,</div><div class="po2">And decked herself with her ear-rings and her jewels,</div><div class="po2">And went after her lovers,</div><div class="po2">And forgot Me, saith the LORD.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-14.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Therefore, behold, I will allure her,</div><div class="po2">And bring her into the wilderness,</div><div class="po2">And speak tenderly unto her.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-15.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And I will give her her vineyards from thence, And the valley of <span class="fn"><a href="#ftn">a</a></span>Achor for a door of hope;</div><div class="po2">And she shall respond there, as in the days of her youth,</div><div class="po2">And as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-16.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD,</div><div class="po2">That thou shalt call Me <span class="fn"><a href="#ftn">b</a></span>Ishi,</div><div class="po2">And shalt call Me no more <span class="fn"><a href="#ftn">c</a></span>Baali.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-17.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For I will take away the names of the Baalim out of her mouth,</div><div class="po2">And they shall no more be mentioned by their name.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-18.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And in that day will I make a covenant for them</div><div class="po2">With the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven,</div><div class="po2">And with the creeping things of the ground;</div><div class="po2">And I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the land,</div><div class="po2">And will make them to lie down safely.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-19.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And I will betroth thee unto Me for ever;</div><div class="po2">Yea, I will betroth thee unto Me in righteousness, and in justice,</div><div class="po2">And in lovingkindness, and in compassion.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-20.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And I will betroth thee unto Me in faithfulness;</div><div class="po2">And thou shalt know the LORD.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-21.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And it shall come to pass in that day,</div><div class="po2">I will respond, saith the LORD, I will respond to the heavens,</div><div class="po2">And they shall respond to the earth;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-22.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And the earth shall respond to the corn, and the wine, and the oil;</div><div class="po2">And they shall respond to <span class="fn"><a href="#ftn">d</a></span>Jezreel.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-23.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And I will sow her unto Me in the land;</div><div class="po2">And I will have compassion upon her that had not obtained compassion;</div><div class="po2">And I will say to them that were not My people: ‘Thou art My people’;</div><div class="po2">And they shall say: ‘Thou art my God.’</div><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><br>{fn: c} That is, My people. <br>{fn: d} That is, That hath obtained compassion.<br>{fn: a} That is, Troubling.<br>{fn: b} That is, My husband. <br>{fn: c} That is, My master.<br>{fn: d} That is, Whom God soweth.</span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br 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