22 Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, (A)Israel is my (B)firstborn son,

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Now, therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, (A)I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince[a] over my people Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 7:8 Or leader

14 (A)I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, (B)I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men,

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I will say to the north, Give up,
    and to the south, Do not withhold;
bring (A)my sons from afar
    and (B)my daughters from the end of the earth,

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(A)With weeping they shall come,
    (B)and with pleas for mercy I will lead them back,
I will make them (C)walk by brooks of water,
    (D)in a straight path in which they shall not stumble,
for (E)I am a father to Israel,
    and Ephraim is (F)my firstborn.

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10 [a] Yet (A)the number of the children of Israel shall be (B)like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. (C)And (D)in the place where it was said to them, (E)“You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, (F)“Children[b] of (G)the living God.”

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 1:10 Ch 2:1 in Hebrew
  2. Hosea 1:10 Or Sons

(A)The one who conquers will have this heritage, and (B)I will be his God and (C)he will be my son.

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