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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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Hosea 2 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</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="/bmcc/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/catholic">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NRSVCE</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> 1a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>] Say to your brother,b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>] Ammi,c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>] and to your sister,d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>] Ruhamah.e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>] <h3>Israel’s Infidelity, Punishment, and Redemption</h3><div class="poetry">2Plead with your mother, plead—     for she is not my wife,     and I am not her husband— that she put away her whoring from her face,     and her adultery from between her breasts, 3or I will strip her naked     and expose her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness,     and turn her into a parched land,     and kill her with thirst. 4Upon her children also I will have no pity,     because they are children of whoredom. 5For their mother has played the whore;     she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, “I will go after my lovers;     they give me my bread and my water,     my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.” 6Therefore I will hedge up herf</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>] way with thorns;     and I will build a wall against her,     so that she cannot find her paths. 7She shall pursue her lovers,     but not overtake them; and she shall seek them,     but shall not find them. Then she shall say, “I will go     and return to my first husband,     for it was better with me then than now.” 8She did not know     that it was I who gave her     the grain, the wine, and the oil, and who lavished upon her silver     and gold that they used for Baal. 9Therefore I will take back     my grain in its time,     and my wine in its season; and I will take away my wool and my flax,     which were to cover her nakedness. 10Now I will uncover her shame     in the sight of her lovers,     and no one shall rescue her out of my hand. 11I will put an end to all her mirth,     her festivals, her new moons, her sabbaths,     and all her appointed festivals. 12I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,     of which she said, “These are my pay,     which my lovers have given me.” I will make them a forest,     and the wild animals shall devour them. 13I will punish her for the festival days of the Baals,     when she offered incense to them and decked herself with her ring and jewelry,     and went after her lovers,     and forgot me, says the Lord.</div> <div class="poetry top-1">14Therefore, I will now allure her,     and bring her into the wilderness,     and speak tenderly to her. 15From there I will give her her vineyards,     and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. There she shall respond as in the days of her youth,     as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.</div> 16On that day, says the Lord, you will call me, “My husband,” and no longer will you call me, “My Baal.”g</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote g">g</a>] 17For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be mentioned by name no more. 18I will make for youh</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote h">h</a>] a covenant on that day with the wild animals, the birds of the air, and the creeping things of the ground; and I will abolishi</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote i">i</a>] the bow, the sword, and war from the land; and I will make you lie down in safety. 19And I will take you for my wife forever; I will take you for my wife in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love, and in mercy. 20I will take you for my wife in faithfulness; and you shall know the Lord. <div class="poetry">21On that day I will answer, says the Lord,     I will answer the heavens     and they shall answer the earth; 22and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil,     and they shall answer Jezreel;j</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote j">j</a>] 23    and I will sow himk</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote k">k</a>] for myself in the land. And I will have pity on Lo-ruhamah,l</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote l">l</a>]     and I will say to Lo-ammi,m</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote m">m</a>] “You are my people”;     and he shall say, “You are my God.”</div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 2:1">Hosea 2:1</a> Ch 2.3 in Heb</li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 2:1">Hosea 2:1</a> Gk: Heb brothers</li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 2:1">Hosea 2:1</a> That is My people</li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 2:1">Hosea 2:1</a> Gk Vg: Heb sisters</li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 2:1">Hosea 2:1</a> That is Pitied</li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 2:6">Hosea 2:6</a> Gk Syr: Heb your</li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 2:16">Hosea 2:16</a> That is, “My master”</li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 2:18">Hosea 2:18</a> Heb them</li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 2:18">Hosea 2:18</a> Heb break</li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 2:22">Hosea 2:22</a> That is God sows</li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 2:23">Hosea 2:23</a> Cn: Heb her</li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 2:23">Hosea 2:23</a> That is Not pitied</li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 2:23">Hosea 2:23</a> That is Not my people</li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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