Hosea 2:22 - Prayer Tents

2"Say of your brothers, 'My people,' and of your sisters, 'My loved one.'H559H251H5971H269H7355

Israel Punished and Restored

2"Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adulterous look from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.H7378H517H7378H802H376H5493H2183H6440H5005H7699 3Otherwise I will strip her naked and make her as bare as on the day she was born; I will make her like a desert, turn her into a parched land, and slay her with thirst.H6584H6174H3322H3117H3205H7760H4057H7896H6723H776H4191H6772 4I will not show my love to her children, because they are the children of adultery.H7355H1121H1121H2183 5Their mother has been unfaithful and has conceived them in disgrace. She said, 'I will go after my lovers, who give me my food and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my drink.'H517H2181H2029H3001H559H3212H310H157H5414H3899H4325H6785H6593H8081H8250 6Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.H7753H1870H5518H1443H1447H4672H5410 7She will chase after her lovers but not catch them; she will look for them but not find them. Then she will say, 'I will go back to my husband as at first, for then I was better off than now.'H7291H157H5381H1245H4672H559H3212H7725H7223H376H2896H6258 8She has not acknowledged that I was the one who gave her the grain, the new wine and oil, who lavished on her the silver and gold—which they used for Baal.H3045H5414H1715H8492H3323H7235H3701H2091H6213H1168 9"Therefore I will take away my grain when it ripens, and my new wine when it is ready. I will take back my wool and my linen, intended to cover her nakedness.H7725H3947H1715H6256H8492H4150H5337H6785H6593H3680H6172 10So now I will expose her lewdness before the eyes of her lovers; no one will take her out of my hands.H1540H5040H5869H157H376H5337H3027 11I will stop all her celebrations: her yearly festivals, her New Moons, her Sabbath days—all her appointed feasts.H4885H7673H2282H2320H7676H4150 12I will ruin her vines and her fig trees, which she said were her pay from her lovers; I will make them a thicket, and wild animals will devour them.H8074H1612H8384H559H866H157H5414H7760H3293H2416H7704H398 13I will punish her for the days she burned incense to the Baals; she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers, but me she forgot," declares the LORD.H6485H3117H1168H6999H5710H5141H2484H3212H310H157H7911H5002H3068 14"Therefore I am now going to allure her; I will lead her into the desert and speak tenderly to her.H6601H3212H4057H1696H3820 15There I will give her back her vineyards, and will make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. There she will sing as in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.H5414H3754H6010H5911H6607H8615H6030H3117H5271H3117H5927H776H4714 16"In that day," declares the LORD, "you will call me 'my husband'; you will no longer call me 'my master.'H3117H5002H3068H7121H376H7121H1180 17I will remove the names of the Baals from her lips; no longer will their names be invoked.H5493H8034H1168H6310H2142H8034 18In that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that move along the ground. Bow and sword and battle I will abolish from the land, so that all may lie down in safety.H3117H3772H1285H2416H7704H5775H8064H7431H127H7665H7198H2719H4421H776H7901H983 19I will betroth you to me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in love and compassion.H781H5769H781H6664H4941H2617H7356 20I will betroth you in faithfulness, and you will acknowledge the LORD.H781H530H3045H3068 21"In that day I will respond," declares the LORD—"I will respond to the skies, and they will respond to the earth;H3117H6030H5002H3068H6030H8064H6030H776 22and the earth will respond to the grain, the new wine and oil, and they will respond to Jezreel.H776H6030H1715H8492H3323H6030H3157 23I will plant her for myself in the land; I will show my love to the one I called 'Not my loved one.' I will say to those called 'Not my people,' 'You are my people'; and they will say, 'You are my God.'"H2232H776H7355H7355H3818H559H5971H5971H559H430