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Hosea 2
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The Lord’s Love for His Unfaithful People

2Say to your brethren, 'My people,' And to your sisters, 'Mercy is shown.'H559H251H5971H269H7355

God’s Unfaithful People

2"Bring charges against your mother, bring charges; For she is not My wife, nor am I her Husband! Let her put away her harlotries from her sight, And her adulteries from between her breasts;H7378H517H7378H802H376H5493H2183H6440H5005H7699 3Lest I strip her naked And expose her, as in the day she was born, And make her like a wilderness, And set her like a dry land, And slay her with thirst.H6584H6174H3322H3117H3205H7760H4057H7896H6723H776H4191H6772 4"I will not have mercy on her children, For they are the children of harlotry.H7355H1121H1121H2183 5For their mother has played the harlot; She who conceived them has behaved shamefully. For she said, 'I will go after my lovers, Who give me my bread and my water, My wool and my linen, My oil and my drink.'H517H2181H2029H3001H559H3212H310H157H5414H3899H4325H6785H6593H8081H8250 6"Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, And wall her in, So that she cannot find her paths.H7753H1870H5518H1443H1447H4672H5410 7She will chase her lovers, But not overtake them; Yes, she will seek them, but not find them. Then she will say, 'I will go and return to my first husband, For then it was better for me than now.'H7291H157H5381H1245H4672H559H3212H7725H7223H376H2896H6258 8For she did not know That I gave her grain, new wine, and oil, And multiplied her silver and gold—Which they prepared for Baal.H3045H5414H1715H8492H3323H7235H3701H2091H6213H1168 9"Therefore I will return and take away My grain in its time And My new wine in its season, And will take back My wool and My linen, Given to cover her nakedness.H7725H3947H1715H6256H8492H4150H5337H6785H6593H3680H6172 10Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, And no one shall deliver her from My hand.H1540H5040H5869H157H376H5337H3027 11I will also cause all her mirth to cease, Her feast days, Her New Moons, Her Sabbaths—All her appointed feasts.H4885H7673H2282H2320H7676H4150 12"And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, Of which she has said, 'These are my wages that my lovers have given me.' So I will make them a forest, And the beasts of the field shall eat them.H8074H1612H8384H559H866H157H5414H7760H3293H2416H7704H398 13I will punish her For the days of the Baals to which she burned incense. She decked herself with her earrings and jewelry, And went after her lovers; But Me she forgot," says the LORD.H6485H3117H1168H6999H5710H5141H2484H3212H310H157H7911H5002H3068

God’s Mercy on His People

14"Therefore, behold, I will allure her, Will bring her into the wilderness, And speak comfort to her.H6601H3212H4057H1696H3820 15I will give her her vineyards from there, And the Valley of Achor as a door of hope; She shall sing there, As in the days of her youth, As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.H5414H3754H6010H5911H6607H8615H6030H3117H5271H3117H5927H776H4714 16"And it shall be, in that day," Says the LORD, "That you will call Me 'My Husband,' And no longer call Me 'My Master,'H3117H5002H3068H7121H376H7121H1180 17For I will take from her mouth the names of the Baals, And they shall be remembered by their name no more.H5493H8034H1168H6310H2142H8034 18In that day I will make a covenant for them With the beasts of the field, With the birds of the air, And with the creeping things of the ground. Bow and sword of battle I will shatter from the earth, To make them lie down safely.H3117H3772H1285H2416H7704H5775H8064H7431H127H7665H7198H2719H4421H776H7901H983 19"I will betroth you to Me forever; Yes, I will betroth you to Me In righteousness and justice, In lovingkindness and mercy;H781H5769H781H6664H4941H2617H7356 20I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness, And you shall know the LORD.H781H530H3045H3068 21"It shall come to pass in that day That I will answer," says the LORD; "I will answer the heavens, And they shall answer the earth.H3117H6030H5002H3068H6030H8064H6030H776 22The earth shall answer With grain, With new wine, And with oil; They shall answer Jezreel.H776H6030H1715H8492H3323H6030H3157 23Then I will sow her for Myself in the earth, And I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; Then I will say to those who were not My people, 'You are My people!' And they shall say, 'You are my God!'"H2232H776H7355H7355H3818H559H5971H5971H559H430


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