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<p class="indent2">And let her remove her harlotry from her face <p class="indent2">And her adultery from between her breasts, <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Lest I strip her naked <p class="indent2">And set her forth as on the day when she was born <p class="indent2">And make her like a wilderness <p class="indent2">And <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>make her like dry land <p class="indent2">And put her to death with thirst. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Also, I will have no compassion on her children <p class="indent2">Because they are children of harlotry. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For their mother has played the harlot; <p class="indent2">She who conceived them has acted shamefully. <p class="indent2">For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, <p class="indent2">Who give <i>me</i> my bread and my water, <p class="indent2">My wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’ <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Therefore, behold, I will hedge up <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>her way with thorns, <p class="indent2">And I will build <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>a wall against her so that she cannot find her paths. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>So she will pursue her lovers, but she will not overtake them; <p class="indent2">And she will seek them, but will not find <i>them</i>. <p class="indent2">Then she will say, ‘I will go, and I will return to my first husband, <p class="indent2">For it was better for me then than now!’ <p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“Now she does not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, <p class="indent2">And multiplied silver and gold for her, <p class="indent2"><i>Which</i> they <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>used for Baal. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Therefore, I will take back My grain at <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>harvest time <p class="indent2">And My new wine in its season. <p class="indent2">I will also deliver My wool and My flax <i>from them</i> <p class="indent2"><i>Given</i> to cover her nakedness. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So now I will uncover her lewdness <p class="indent2">In the sight of her lovers, <p class="indent2">And no one will deliver her out of My hand. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I will also cease all her joy, <p class="indent2">Her feasts, her new moons, her sabbaths, <p class="indent2">And all her appointed times. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And I will make desolate her vines and fig trees, <p class="indent2">Of which she said, ‘These are my wages <p class="indent2">Which my lovers have given me.’ <p class="indent2">And I will make them a forest, <p class="indent2">And the beasts of the field will devour them. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So I will visit the days of the Baals upon her <p class="indent2">When she used to <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>offer <i>offerings</i> in smoke to them <p class="indent2">And adorn herself with her <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>earrings and jewelry <p class="indent2">And go after her lovers, so that she forgot Me,” declares Yahweh. <p class="hdg">Yahweh’s Faithful Betrothal</p><p><p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“Therefore, behold, I will allure her <p class="indent2">And bring her into the wilderness <p class="indent2">And speak to her heart. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then I will give her her vineyards from there <p class="indent2">And the valley of Achor as a door of hope. <p class="indent2">And she will <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>sing there as in the days of her youth, <p class="indent2">As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And it will be in that day,” declares Yahweh, <p class="indent2">“<i>That</i> you will call Me <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Ishi <p class="indent2">And will no longer call Me <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Baali. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth <p class="indent2">So that they will be remembered by their names no more. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And in that day I will cut a covenant for them <p class="indent2">With the beasts of the field, <p class="indent2">The birds of the sky, <p class="indent2">And the creeping things of the ground. <p class="indent2">And I will break the bow, the sword, and war from the land, <p class="indent2">And I will make them lie down in security. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And I will betroth you to Me forever; <p class="indent2">Indeed, I will betroth you to Me in righteousness and in justice, <p class="indent2">In lovingkindness and in compassion, <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness. <p class="indent2">Then you will know Yahweh. <p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“And it will be in that day, <i>that</i> I will answer,” declares Yahweh. <p class="indent2">“I will answer the heavens, and they will answer the earth, <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And the earth will answer the grain, the new wine, and the oil, <p class="indent2">And they will answer <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Jezreel. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And I will sow her for Myself in the land. <p class="indent2">I will also have compassion on <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>her who had not obtained compassion, <p class="indent2">And I will say to <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>those who were not My people, <p class="indent2">‘You are My people!’ <p class="indent2">And <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>they will say, ‘<i>You are</i> my God!’”<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">1</span> Ch 2:3 in Heb<br><span class="fnverse">1</span> Lit <i>my people</i><br><span class="fnverse">1</span> Lit <i>she has obtained compassion</i><br><span class="fnverse">3</span> Lit <i>set</i><br><span class="fnverse">6</span> As in some ancient versions; Heb <i>your</i><br><span class="fnverse">6</span> Lit <i>her wall so that</i><br><span class="fnverse">8</span> Or <i>made into the</i><br><span class="fnverse">9</span> Lit <i>its time</i><br><span class="fnverse">13</span> Or <i>burn incense</i><br><span class="fnverse">13</span> Or <i>nose rings</i><br><span class="fnverse">15</span> Or <i>give answer</i><br><span class="fnverse">16</span> Lit <i>my husband</i><br><span class="fnverse">16</span> Lit <i>my master</i>, <i>my Baal</i><br><span class="fnverse">22</span> Lit <i>God sows</i><br><span class="fnverse">23</span> Heb <i>Lo-ruhamah</i><br><span class="fnverse">23</span> Heb <i>Lo-ammi</i><br><span class="fnverse">23</span> Lit <i>he</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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