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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 Smith's Literal 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="../">SLT</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">Smith's Literal 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 ye to your brethren, My people; and to your sisters, Being compassionated.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Contend with your mother, contend ye, for she is not my wife, and I not her husband: for she shall put away her fornications from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Lest I shall strip her naked, and I set her as the day of her birth, and I set her as a desert, and I set her as a land of dryness, and I slew her with thirst.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And her sons I will not compassionate, for they are the sons of fornications.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For their mother committed fornication: she conceiving them acted shamefully: for she said, I will go after those loving me giving me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, mine oil and my drinks.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Therefore, behold me hedging in thy way with thorns, and I walled a wall and she shall not find her beaten paths.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And she pursued those loving her, and she shall not overtake them; and she sought them and she shall not find: and she said, I will go and turn back to my former husband, for it was well to me then more 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 to her grain, and new wine, and new oil, and I multiplied silver to her, and gold they made for Baal.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For this I will turn back and take away my grain in its time, and my new wine in its appointment, and I took away my wool and my linen to cover her nakedness.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And now will I uncover her wickedness before the eyes of those loving her, and a man shall not deliver her from my hand.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And I caused all her rejoicing to cease, her festival and her new moon, and her Sabbath and all her appointment.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And I destroyed her vine and her fig tree, of which she said, They are wages to me which those loving me gave to me: and I set them for a forest, and the beasts of the field ate them.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And I reviewed upon her the days of the Baals, which she will burn incense to them, and she will be decked with her earring and her necklace, and she will go after those loving her, and she forget me, says Jehovah.<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>For this, behold, I entice her, and I caused her to go into the desert, and I spake to her heart.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And I gave to her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she was humbled there as the days of her youth and as 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 was in that day, says Jehovah, thou shalt call me, My husband; and thou shalt no more call to me, My Lord.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And I put away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And I cut out for them a covenant in that day with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the earth: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the land, and I caused them to lie down confidently.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And I betrothed thee to me forever; and I betrothed thee to me in justice and in judgment, and in kindness and in compassions.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And I betrothed thee to me in faithfulness, and thou knewest Jehovah.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And it was in that day, I will answer, says Jehovah, I will answer the heavens and they shall answer 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 answer the grain and the new wine and the new oil; and they shall answer Jezreel.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And I sowed her to me in the earth; and I compassionated her Not being compassionated; and I said to Not my people, Thou my people; and they will say, My God.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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