Hosea Chapter 2
2:1 | Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah. |
2:2 | Plead with your mother, plead: for she [is] not my wife, neither [am] I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; |
2:3 | Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the ![]() |
2:4 | And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they [be] the children of whoredoms. |
2:5 | For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give [me] my ![]() ![]() ![]() |
2:6 | Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. |
2:7 | And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find [them]: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then [was it] better with me than now. |
2:8 | For she did not know that I gave her ![]() ![]() |
2:9 | Therefore will I return, and take away my ![]() ![]() ![]() |
2:10 | And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand. |
2:11 | I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast ![]() |
2:12 | And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These [are] my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them. |
2:13 | And I will visit upon her the ![]() |
2:14 | Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. |
2:15 | And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the ![]() ![]() |
2:16 | And it shall be at that ![]() |
2:17 | For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name. |
2:18 | And in that ![]() ![]() ![]() |
2:19 | And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; ![]() |
2:20 | I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD. |
2:21 | And it shall come to pass in that ![]() ![]() |
2:22 | And the ![]() ![]() ![]() |
2:23 | And I will sow her unto me in the ![]() ![]() ![]() |