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Hosea 2
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2So call your fellow Israelites "God's People" and "Loved-by-the-Lord."H559H251H5971H269H7355

Unfaithful Gomer—Unfaithful Israel

2My children, plead with your mother - though she is no longer a wife to me, and I am no longer her husband. Plead with her to stop her adultery and prostitution.H7378H517H7378H802H376H5493H2183H6440H5005H7699
3If she does not, I will strip her as naked as she was on the day she was born. I will make her like a dry and barren land, and she will die of thirst.H6584H6174H3322H3117H3205H7760H4057H7896H6723H776H4191H6772
4I will not show mercy to her children; they are the children of a shameless prostitute.H7355H1121H1121H2183
5She herself said, "I will go to my lovers - they give me food and water, wool and linen, olive oil and wine."H517H2181H2029H3001H559H3212H310H157H5414H3899H4325H6785H6593H8081H8250
6So I am going to fence her in with thorn bushes and build a wall to block her way.H7753H1870H5518H1443H1447H4672H5410
7She will run after her lovers but will not catch them. She will look for them but will not find them. Then she will say, "I am going back to my first husband - I was better off then than I am now."H7291H157H5381H1245H4672H559H3212H7725H7223H376H2896H6258
8She would never acknowledge that I am the one who gave her the grain, the wine, the olive oil, and all the silver and gold that she used in the worship of Baal.H3045H5414H1715H8492H3323H7235H3701H2091H6213H1168
9So at harvest time I will take back my gifts of grain and wine, and will take away the wool and the linen I gave her for clothing.H7725H3947H1715H6256H8492H4150H5337H6785H6593H3680H6172
10I will strip her naked in front of her lovers, and no one will be able to save her from my power.H1540H5040H5869H157H376H5337H3027
11I will put an end to all her festivities - her annual and monthly festivals and her Sabbath celebrations - all her religious meetings.H4885H7673H2282H2320H7676H4150
12I will destroy her grapevines and her fig trees, which she said her lovers gave her for serving them. I will turn her vineyards and orchards into a wilderness; wild animals will destroy them.H8074H1612H8384H559H866H157H5414H7760H3293H2416H7704H398
13I will punish her for the times that she forgot me, when she burned incense to Baal and put on her jewelry to go chasing after her lovers. The LORD has spoken.H6485H3117H1168H6999H5710H5141H2484H3212H310H157H7911H5002H3068

The Lord’s Love for His People

14So I am going to take her into the desert again; there I will win her back with words of love.H6601H3212H4057H1696H3820
15I will give back to her the vineyards she had and make Trouble Valley a door of hope. She will respond to me there as she did when she was young, when she came from Egypt.H5414H3754H6010H5911H6607H8615H6030H3117H5271H3117H5927H776H4714
16Then once again she will call me her husband - she will no longer call me her Baal.H3117H5002H3068H7121H376H7121H1180
17I will never let her speak the name of Baal again.H5493H8034H1168H6310H2142H8034
18At that time I will make a covenant with all the wild animals and birds, so that they will not harm my people. I will also remove all weapons of war from the land, all swords and bows, and will let my people live in peace and safety.H3117H3772H1285H2416H7704H5775H8064H7431H127H7665H7198H2719H4421H776H7901H983
19Israel, I will make you my wife; I will be true and faithful; I will show you constant love and mercy and make you mine forever.H781H5769H781H6664H4941H2617H7356
20I will keep my promise and make you mine, and you will acknowledge me as LORD.H781H530H3045H3068
21At that time I will answer the prayers of my people Israel.H3117H6030H5002H3068H6030H8064H6030H776
22I will make rain fall on the earth, and the earth will produce grain and grapes and olives.H776H6030H1715H8492H3323H6030H3157
23I will establish my people in the land and make them prosper. I will show love to those who were called "Unloved," and to those who were called "Not-My-People" I will say, "You are my people," and they will answer, "You are our God."H2232H776H7355H7355H3818H559H5971H5971H559H430


Good News Translation. Scripture taken from the Good News Translation in Today’s English Version- Second Edition Copyright © 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission. More details.
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