Hosea 2 NKJV

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valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/hosea/2.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>’s Love for His Unfaithful People</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-1"><span class="text Hos-2-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Say to your brethren, <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>‘My people,’</span></span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-1">And to your sisters, <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>‘Mercy <i>is shown.</i>’</span></p></div> <h3> God’s Unfaithful People</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Hos-2-2"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Bring<span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span> charges against your mother, <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>bring charges;</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-2">For she <i>is</i> not My wife, nor <i>am</i> I her Husband!</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-2">Let her put away her harlotries from her sight,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-2">And her adulteries from between her breasts;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Lest I strip her naked</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-3">And expose her, as in the day she was born,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-3">And make her like a wilderness,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-3">And set her like a dry land,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-3">And slay her with thirst.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“I will not have mercy on her children,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-4">For they <i>are</i> the children of harlotry.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For their mother has played the harlot;</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-5">She who conceived them has behaved shamefully.</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-5">For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-5">Who give <i>me</i> my bread and my water,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-5">My wool and my linen,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-5">My oil and my drink.’</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“Therefore, behold,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-6">I will hedge up your way with thorns,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-6">And <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>wall her in,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-6">So that she cannot find her paths.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>She will <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>chase her lovers,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-7">But not overtake them;</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-7">Yes, she will seek them, but not find <i>them.</i></span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-7">Then she will say,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-7">‘I will go and return to my first husband,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-7">For then <i>it was</i> better for me than now.’</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For she did not know</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-8">That I gave her grain, new wine, and oil,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-8">And multiplied her silver and gold—</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-8"><i>Which</i> they prepared for Baal.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“Therefore I will return and take away</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-9">My grain in its time</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-9">And My new wine in its season,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-9">And will take back My wool and My linen,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-9"><i>Given</i> to cover her nakedness.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-10">And no one shall deliver her from My hand.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I will also cause all her mirth to cease,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-11">Her feast days,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-11">Her New Moons,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-11">Her Sabbaths—</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-11">All her appointed feasts.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-12">Of which she has said,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-12">‘These <i>are</i> my wages that my lovers have given me.’</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-12">So I will make them a forest,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-12">And the beasts of the field shall eat them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I will punish her</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-13">For the days of the Baals to which she burned incense.</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-13">She decked herself with her earrings and jewelry,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-13">And went after her lovers;</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-13">But Me she forgot,” says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>.</span></p></div> <h3> God’s Mercy on His People</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Hos-2-14"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“Therefore, behold, I will allure her,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-14">Will bring her into the wilderness,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-14">And speak <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span>comfort to her.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I will give her her vineyards from there,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-15">And the Valley of Achor as a door of hope;</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-15">She shall sing there,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-15">As in the days of her youth,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-15">As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“And it shall be, in that day,”</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-16">Says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-16">“<i>That</i> you will call Me <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[h]</a></span>‘My Husband,’</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-16">And no longer call Me <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[i]</a></span>‘My Master,’</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For I will take from her mouth the names of the Baals,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-17">And they shall be remembered by their name no more.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>In that day I will make a covenant for them</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-18">With the beasts of the field,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-18">With the birds of the air,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-18">And <i>with</i> the creeping things of the ground.</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-18">Bow and sword of battle I will shatter from the earth,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-18">To make them lie down safely.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“I will betroth you to Me forever;</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-19">Yes, I will betroth you to Me</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-19">In righteousness and justice,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-19">In lovingkindness and mercy;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-20">And you shall know the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“It shall come to pass in that day</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-21"><i>That</i> I will answer,” says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-21">“I will answer the heavens,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-21">And they shall answer the earth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The earth shall answer</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-22">With grain,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-22">With new wine,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-22">And with oil;</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-22">They shall answer <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[j]</a></span>Jezreel.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Then I will sow her for Myself in the earth,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-23">And I will have mercy on <i>her who had</i> <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[k]</a></span>not obtained mercy;</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-23">Then I will say to <i>those who were</i> <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[l]</a></span>not My people,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-23">‘You <i>are</i> <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[m]</a></span>My people!’</span><br /><span class="text Hos-2-23">And they shall say, ‘<i>You are</i> my God!’ ”</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-22107a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Hosea 2:1">Hosea 2:1</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb. <i>Ammi,</i> <span class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Hos.1.9" href="/passage/?search=Hos.1.9&version=NKJV">Hos. 1:9</span>, <span class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Hos.1.10" href="/passage/?search=Hos.1.10&version=NKJV">10</span></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22107b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Hosea 2:1">Hosea 2:1</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb. <i>Ruhamah,</i> <span class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Hos.1.6" href="/passage/?search=Hos.1.6&version=NKJV">Hos. 1:6</span></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22108c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Hosea 2:2">Hosea 2:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>Contend with</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22108d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Hosea 2:2">Hosea 2:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>contend</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22112e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Hosea 2:6">Hosea 2:6</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>wall up her wall</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22113f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Hosea 2:7">Hosea 2:7</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>pursue</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22120g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Hosea 2:14">Hosea 2:14</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>to her heart</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22122h"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Hosea 2:16">Hosea 2:16</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb. <i>Ishi</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22122i"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Hosea 2:16">Hosea 2:16</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb. <i>Baali</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22128j"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Hosea 2:22">Hosea 2:22</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>God Will Sow</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22129k"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Hosea 2:23">Hosea 2:23</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb. <i>lo-ruhamah</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22129l"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Hosea 2:23">Hosea 2:23</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb. <i>lo-ammi</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22129m"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Hosea 2:23">Hosea 2:23</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb. <i>ammi</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div 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