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ULT HOS Chapter 2

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2 Say to your brothers, “Ammi,”

and to your sisters, “Ruhamah.”

2 Contend with your mother, contend,

for she is not my wife,

and I am not her husband.

And let her remove her prostitutions from her face,

and her adulteries from between her breasts,

3 lest I strip her naked,

and place her as on the day of her being born,

and I make her like the wilderness, and set her like a land of dryness,

and I kill her with the thirst.

4 And I will not have compassion on her children,

for they are children of prostitutions.

5 For their mother has prostituted herself;

the one who conceived them has acted shamefully,

for she said, “Let me go after my lovers,

the givers of my bread and my water,

my wool and my linen,

my oil and my drink.”

6 Therefore, behold me blocking your way with the thorns,

and I will wall up a wall against her,

and her paths she will not find.

7 And she will pursue her lovers,

but she will not overtake them,

and she will seek them,

but she will not find them.

And she will say, “Let me go and return

to my first husband,

for it was better for me then than now.”

8 And she, she did not know that I, I gave to her

the grain and the new wine and the oil,

and silver I multiplied to her,

and gold which they made for the Baal.

9 Therefore I will return and take my grain in its time,

and my new wine in its appointed time,

and I will snatch away my wool and my linen

meant to cover her nakedness.

10 And now I will uncover her lewdness

to the eyes of her lovers,

and no man will deliver her from my hand.

11 And I will cause all of her joy to cease,

her feast, her new moon, and her Sabbath,

and all of her appointed festivals.

12 And I will devastate her vine and her fig tree,

of which she said, “A payment they are to me,

which my lovers gave to me.”

And I will make them a forest,

and the beasts of the field will eat them.

13 And I will visit on her the days of the Baals,

in which she burned incense to them,

and she put on her ring and her jewelry,

and she went after her lovers,

but me she forgot.

—the declaration of Yahweh.

14 Therefore, behold, I am alluring her,

and I will lead her into the wilderness,

and I will speak on 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 answer there as in the days of her youth,

and as on the day of her going up from the land of Egypt.

16 And it will be on that day—the declaration of Yahweh—you will call me “My Husband,”

and you will no longer call me “My Baal.”

17 And I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth,

and they will no longer be remembered by their name.

18 And I will cut a covenant for them on that day,

with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens,

and the creeping things of the ground.

And bow and sword and battle I will break from the land,

and I will make them lie down in safety.

19 And I will betroth you to me forever,

and I will betroth you to me

in righteousness and in justice,

and in covenant faithfulness and in compassion.

20 And I will betroth you to me in faithfulness,

and you will know Yahweh.

21 And it will be on that day,

I will answer—the declaration of Yahweh—I will answer the heavens,

and they, they will answer the earth.

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

and they will answer Jezreel.

23 And I will sow her for myself on the earth,

and I will have compassion on Lo Ruhamah,

and I will say to Lo Ammi, “You are my people,”

and he, he will say, “My God.”

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