Hosea 2:1-16 ▼

1 “ Say of your? brothers, ‘Ammi,’ and of your? sisters, ‘Ruhamah.’

2 Plead with your? mother—plead, for she is not My wife, and I am not her Husband—that she might turn aside her prostitution from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts,

3 lest I strip her naked, and expose her like the day of her being born, and make her like the desert, and set her like a parched land, and kill her with thirst!

4 And I will not show compassion to her children, for they are sons of prostitution.

5 For their mother has been a prostitute; she who conceived them has acted shamefully, for she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, those giving me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my drink.’

6 Therefore, behold, I am hedging up your path with thorns; and I will wall her up with a wall, so her paths she cannot find.

7 And she will pursue her lovers, and she will not overtake them; she will seek them, and she will not find them. She will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better for me then than now!’

8 And she did not know that I gave to her the grain, and the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied for her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.

9 Therefore I will return, and I will take away My grain in its time, and My new wine in its season; and I will snatch away My wool and My linen to cover her nakedness!

10 And now I will uncover her lewdness before the eyes of her lovers, and no man will deliver her from My hand.

11 And I will make cease all her rejoicing—her feast, her New Moon, and her Sabbath, and all her appointed feasts.

12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, of which she has said, “My wages, they are for me that which my lovers have given to me.” I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field will devour them.

13 And I will visit punishment on her for the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense and adorned herself with her rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers—and Me she forgot,” a declaration of YHWH.

14 “Therefore, behold, I am enticing her, and I will bring her into the desert, and I have spoken upon her heart.

15 And I will give to her her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor as a door of hope; and she will sing there as in the days of her youth, and as in the day of her coming up from the land of Egypt.

16 And it will come to pass on that day, a declaration of YHWH, “That you will call out ‘My Ishi,’ and no longer will you call Me ‘My Baal.’