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Hosea 2:2-13
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Hosea 2:2-13
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Israel’s Adultery Rebuked
2 Rebuke your mother; rebuke her.(A)
For she is not My wife and I am not her husband.(B)
Let her remove the promiscuous look from her face(C)
and her adultery from between her breasts.
3 Otherwise, I will strip her naked(D)
and expose her as she was on the day of her birth.
I will make her like a desert(E)
and like a parched land,
and I will let her die of thirst.(F)
4 I will have no compassion on her children(G)
because they are the children of promiscuity.
5 Yes, their mother is promiscuous;
she conceived them and acted shamefully.(H)
For she thought, “I will go after my lovers,(I)
the men who give me my food and water,
my wool and flax, my oil and drink.”(J)
6 Therefore, this is what I will do:
I will block her[a] way(K) with thorns;(L)
I will enclose her with a wall,
so that she cannot find her paths.(M)
7 She will pursue her lovers but not catch them;(N)
she will seek them but not find them.
Then she will think,
“I will go back to my former husband,(O)
for then it was better for me than now.”(P)
8 She does not recognize(Q)
that it is I who gave her the grain,(R)
the new wine, and the oil.
I lavished silver and gold on her,
which they used for Baal.
9 Therefore, I will take back My grain in its time(S)
and My new wine in its season;
I will take away My wool and linen,
which were to cover her nakedness.
10 Now I will expose her shame(T)
in the sight of her lovers,
and no one will rescue her from My hands.
11 I will put an end to all her celebrations:(U)
her feasts,(V) New Moons,(W) and Sabbaths—
all her festivals.
12 I will devastate her vines and fig trees.(X)
She thinks that these are her wages
that her lovers have given her.
I will turn them into a thicket,(Y)
and the wild animals will eat them.(Z)
13 And I will punish her for the days of the Baals(AA)
when she burned incense to them,(AB)
put on her rings and jewelry,(AC)
and went after her lovers,
but forgot Me.(AD)
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Footnotes
- Hosea 2:6 LXX, Syr; MT reads your
Hosea 2:2-13
New International Version
Hosea 2:2-13
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Israel Punished and Restored
2 “Rebuke your mother,(A) rebuke her,
for she is not my wife,
and I am not her husband.
Let her remove the adulterous(B) look from her face
and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.
3 Otherwise I will strip(C) her naked
and make her as bare as on the day she was born;(D)
I will make her like a desert,(E)
turn her into a parched land,
and slay her with thirst.
4 I will not show my love to her children,(F)
because they are the children of adultery.(G)
5 Their mother has been unfaithful
and has conceived them in disgrace.
She said, ‘I will go after my lovers,(H)
who give me my food and my water,
my wool and my linen, my olive oil and my drink.’(I)
6 Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes;
I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.(J)
7 She will chase after her lovers but not catch them;
she will look for them but not find them.(K)
Then she will say,
‘I will go back to my husband(L) as at first,(M)
for then I was better off(N) than now.’
8 She has not acknowledged(O) that I was the one
who gave her the grain, the new wine and oil,(P)
who lavished on her the silver and gold(Q)—
which they used for Baal.(R)
9 “Therefore I will take away my grain(S) when it ripens,
and my new wine(T) when it is ready.
I will take back my wool and my linen,
intended to cover her naked body.
10 So now I will expose(U) her lewdness
before the eyes of her lovers;(V)
no one will take her out of my hands.(W)
11 I will stop(X) all her celebrations:(Y)
her yearly festivals, her New Moons,
her Sabbath days—all her appointed festivals.(Z)
12 I will ruin her vines(AA) and her fig trees,(AB)
which she said were her pay from her lovers;(AC)
I will make them a thicket,(AD)
and wild animals will devour them.(AE)
13 I will punish her for the days
she burned incense(AF) to the Baals;(AG)
she decked herself with rings and jewelry,(AH)
and went after her lovers,(AI)
but me she forgot,(AJ)”
declares the Lord.(AK)
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