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ULT HOS Chapter 2

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2 Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’

and to your sisters, ‘You have been shown compassion.’ ”

2 Contend with your mother, contend,

for she is not my wife,

and neither am I her husband.

Let her put away her harlotry from her face,

and her adultery from between her breasts.

3 If not, I will strip her naked

and expose her as on the day that she was born.

I will make her like the wilderness,

and make her like a parched land,

and I will make her die from thirst.

4 I will have no mercy on her children,

because they are children of harlotry.

5 For their mother has played the harlot,

and 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.”

6 Therefore, I will hedge up her way with thorns.

I will build up a wall against her

so she cannot find her paths.

7 She will pursue her lovers,

but she will not overtake them.

She will seek them,

but she will not find them.

Then she will say,

“I will go and return to my first husband,

for it was better for me then than it is now.”

8 For she had not known that it was I who gave her

the grain, the new wine and the oil,

and who lavished on her silver and gold,

which they then used for Baal.

9 Therefore I will take back my grain in its time,

and my new wine in its season.

I will take away my wool and my flax

that were used to cover her nakedness.

10 Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers,

and no one will rescue her out of my hand.

11 I will also put an end to all her mirth,

her feasts, her new moon celebrations, her Sabbaths, and all her appointed festivals.

12 “I will destroy her vines and her fig trees,

of which she has said,

‘These are my wages that my lovers gave me.’

I will make them a forest,

and the animals of the field will devour them.

13 I will punish her for the feast days of the Baals,

when she burned incense to them,

when she adorned herself with her rings and jewelry,

and she went after her lovers and forgot me—

this is the declaration of Yahweh.”

14 Therefore, behold, I am going to allure her. I will bring her into the wilderness

and speak tenderly to her.

15 I will give her back her vineyards,

and the Valley of Achor as a door of hope.

She will answer me there as in the days of her youth,

as in the days that she came out of the land of Egypt.

16 “It will be in that day—this is the declaration of Yahweh—

that you will call me, ‘My husband,’

and you will no longer call me, ‘My Baal.’

17 For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth;

and they will be remembered by their names no more.”

18 “On that day I will make a covenant for them

with the beasts in the fields,

with the birds in the sky,

and with the crawling things on the ground.

I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land,

and I will make you lie down in safety.

19 I will betroth you to me forever.

I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in steadfast love, and in mercy.

20 I will betroth you to me in faithfulness,

and you will know Yahweh.

21 On that day,

I will answer—this is the declaration of Yahweh—

I will answer the heavens,

and they will answer the earth.

22 The earth will answer the grain, the new wine and the oil,

and they will answer Jezreel.

23 I will sow her for myself in the land,

and I will have mercy on Lo-Ruhamah.

I will say to Lo-Ammi,

‘You are my people,’

and they will say, ‘You are my God.’ ”

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