Hosea 2 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 Say ye to your brethren, My people; and to your sisters, Being compassionated. Say to your brothers, “You are my people,” and to your sisters, “You have received mercy.” “Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’
2 Contend with your mother, contend ye, for she is not my wife, and I not her husband: for she shall put away her fornications from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts; “Plead with your mother, plead— for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband— that she put away her whoring from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts; “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.
3 Lest I shall strip her naked, and I set her as the day of her birth, and I set her as a desert, and I set her as a land of dryness, and I slew her with thirst. lest I strip her naked and make her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and make her like a parched land, and kill her with thirst. Otherwise 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.
4 And her sons I will not compassionate, for they are the sons of fornications. Upon her children also I will have no mercy, because they are children of whoredom. I will not show my love to her children, because they are the children of adultery.
5 For their mother committed fornication: she conceiving them acted shamefully: for she said, I will go after those loving me giving me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, mine oil and my drinks. For their mother has played the whore; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’ Their 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 olive oil and my drink.’
6 Therefore, behold me hedging in thy way with thorns, and I walled a wall and she shall not find her beaten paths. Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, so that she cannot find her paths. Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.
7 And she pursued those loving her, and she shall not overtake them; and she sought them and she shall not find: and she said, I will go and turn back to my former husband, for it was well to me then more than now. She shall pursue her lovers but not overtake them, and she shall seek them but shall not find them. Then she shall say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better for me then than now.’ She 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.’
8 And she knew not that I gave to her grain, and new wine, and new oil, and I multiplied silver to her, and gold they made for Baal. And she did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil, and who lavished on her silver and gold, which they used for Baal. She 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.
9 For this I will turn back and take away my grain in its time, and my new wine in its appointment, and I took away my wool and my linen to cover her nakedness. Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my wine in its season, and I will take away my wool and my flax, which were to cover her nakedness. “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 naked body.
10 And now will I uncover her wickedness before the eyes of those loving her, and a man shall not deliver her from my hand. Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one shall rescue her out of my hand. So now I will expose her lewdness before the eyes of her lovers; no one will take her out of my hands.
11 And I caused all her rejoicing to cease, her festival and her new moon, and her Sabbath and all her appointment. And I will put an end to all her mirth, her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her appointed feasts. I will stop all her celebrations: her yearly festivals, her New Moons, her Sabbath days—all her appointed festivals.
12 And I destroyed her vine and her fig tree, of which she said, They are wages to me which those loving me gave to me: and I set them for a forest, and the beasts of the field ate them. And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, ‘These are my wages, which my lovers have given me.’ I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall devour them. I 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.
13 And I reviewed upon her the days of the Baals, which she will burn incense to them, and she will be decked with her earring and her necklace, and she will go after those loving her, and she forget me, says Jehovah. And I will punish her for the feast days of the Baals when she burned offerings to them and adorned herself with her ring and jewelry, and went after her lovers and forgot me, declares the LORD. I 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.
14 For this, behold, I entice her, and I caused her to go into the desert, and I spake to her heart. “Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her. “Therefore I am now going to allure her; I will lead her into the wilderness and speak tenderly to her.
15 And I gave to her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she was humbled there as the days of her youth and as the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt. And there I will give her her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt. There I will give her back her vineyards, and will make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. There she will respond as in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.
16 And it was in that day, says Jehovah, thou shalt call me, My husband; and thou shalt no more call to me, My Lord. “And in that day, declares the LORD, you will call me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer will you call me ‘My Baal.’ “In that day,” declares the LORD, “you will call me ‘my husband’; you will no longer call me ‘my master.’
17 And I put away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name. For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more. I will remove the names of the Baals from her lips; no longer will their names be invoked.
18 And I cut out for them a covenant in that day with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the earth: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the land, and I caused them to lie down confidently. And I will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground. And I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety. In that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky 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.
19 And I betrothed thee to me forever; and I betrothed thee to me in justice and in judgment, and in kindness and in compassions. And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. I will betroth you to me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in love and compassion.
20 And I betrothed thee to me in faithfulness, and thou knewest Jehovah. I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the LORD. I will betroth you in faithfulness, and you will acknowledge the LORD.
21 And it was in that day, I will answer, says Jehovah, I will answer the heavens and they shall answer the earth; “And in that day I will answer, declares the LORD, I will answer the heavens, and they shall answer the earth, “In that day I will respond,” declares the LORD— “I will respond to the skies, and they will respond to the earth;
22 And the earth shall answer the grain and the new wine and the new oil; and they shall answer Jezreel. and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil, and they shall answer Jezreel, and the earth will respond to the grain, the new wine and the olive oil, and they will respond to Jezreel.
23 And I sowed her to me in the earth; and I compassionated her Not being compassionated; and I said to Not my people, Thou my people; and they will say, My God. and I will sow her for myself in the land. And I will have mercy on No Mercy, and I will say to Not My People, ‘You are my people’; and he shall say, ‘You are my God.’” I 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.’”
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