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Read Hosea 2

World English Bible · 23 verses

¹ “Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’ and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
² Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³ lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴ Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy, for they are children of unfaithfulness.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁵ For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done 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.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁶ Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁷ She will follow after her lovers, but she won’t overtake them; and she will seek them, but won’t find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband, for then it was better with me than now.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁸ For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁹ Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁰ Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹¹ I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹² I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me,’ and I will make them a forest, and the animals of the field shall eat them.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹³ I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers and forgot me,” says Yahweh.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁴ “Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁵ I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁶ It will be in that day,” says Yahweh, “that you will call me ‘my husband,’ and no longer call me ‘my master.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁷ For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by name.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁸ In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, and will make them lie down safely.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁹ I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁰ I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know Yahweh.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²¹ It will happen in that day, that I will respond,” says Yahweh. “I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²² and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; and they will respond to Jezreel.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²³ I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘You are My God!’”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

Scripture: World English Bible, public domain, eBible.org