Hosea 2:1-23 - The Unfaithful Wife
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and your sisters: Compassion.
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For she is not My wife and I am not her husband.
Let her remove the promiscuous look from her face
and her adultery from between her breasts.
and expose her as she was on the day of her birth.
I will make her like a desert
and like a parched land,
and I will let her die of thirst.
because they are the children of promiscuity.
she conceived them and acted shamefully.
For she thought, “I will go after my lovers,
the men who give me my food and water,
my wool and flax, my oil and drink.”
I will block her
I will enclose her with a wall,
so that she cannot find her paths.
she will seek them but not find them.
Then she will think,
“I will go back to my former husband,
for then it was better for me than now.”
that it is I who gave her the grain,
the new wine, and the oil.
I lavished silver and gold on her,
which they used for Baal.
and My new wine in its season;
I will take away My wool and linen,
which were to cover her nakedness.
in the sight of her lovers,
and no one will rescue her from My hands.
her feasts,
all her festivals.
She thinks that these are her wages
that her lovers have given her.
I will turn them into a thicket,
and the wild animals will eat them.
when she burned incense to them,
put on her rings and jewelry,
and went after her lovers,
but forgot Me.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
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lead her to the wilderness,
and speak tenderly to her.
and make the Valley of Achor
into a gateway of hope.
There she will respond as she did
in the days of her youth,
as in the day she came out of the land of Egypt.
this is the Lord’s declaration—
you will call Me, “My husband,”
and no longer call Me, “My Baal.”
from her mouth;
they will no longer be remembered by their names.
with the wild animals, the birds of the sky,
and the creatures that crawl on the ground.
I will shatter bow, sword,
and weapons of war in the land
and will enable the people to rest securely.
I will take you to be My wife in righteousness,
justice, love, and compassion.
and you will know Yahweh.
this is the Lord’s declaration.
I will respond to the sky,
and it will respond to the earth.
the new wine, and the oil,
and they will respond to Jezreel.
and I will have compassion
on No Compassion;
I will say
You are My people,
and he will say, “You are My God.”