Hosea Chapter 2

• Hosea 2:1
  Hosea.
• Hosea 2:2
  “Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’ and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’
• Hosea 2:3
  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 adul...
• Hosea 2:4
  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 w...
• Hosea 2:5
  Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy, for they are children of unfaithfulness.
• Hosea 2:6
  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...
• Hosea 2:7
  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.
• Hosea 2:8
  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 t...
• Hosea 2:9
  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.
• Hosea 2:10
  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 ...
• Hosea 2:11
  Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand.
• Hosea 2:12
  I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
• Hosea 2:13
  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 fore...
• Hosea 2:14
  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 lo...
• Hosea 2:15
  “Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.
• Hosea 2:16
  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 th...
• Hosea 2:17
  It will be in that day,” says the LORD, “that you will call me ‘my husband,’ and no longer call me ‘my master.’
• Hosea 2:18
  For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by name.
• Hosea 2:19
  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. ...
• Hosea 2:20
  I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.
• Hosea 2:21
  I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know the LORD.
• Hosea 2:22
  It will happen in that day, that I will respond,” says the LORD. “I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth;
• Hosea 2:23
  and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; and they will respond to Jezreel.
• Hosea 2:24
  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 ...