Hosea 2:1-3
1599 Geneva Bible
2 1 The people is called to repentance. 5 He showeth their idolatry and threateneth them except they repent.
1 Say unto your [a]brethren, Ammi, and to your sisters, Ruhamah,
2 Plead with your [b]mother: plead with her: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: but let her take away her fornications out of her sight, and her adulteries [c]from between her breasts.
3 Lest I strip her naked, and [d]set her as in the day that she was [e]born, and make her as a wilderness, and leave her like a dry land, and slay her for thirst.
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- Hosea 2:1 Seeing that I have promised you deliverance, it remaineth that you encourage one another to embrace the same, considering that ye are my people on whom I will have mercy.
- Hosea 2:2 God showeth that the fault was not in him, but in their Synagogue, and their idolatries, that he forsook them, Isa. 50:1.
- Hosea 2:2 Meaning, that their idolatry was so great, that they were not ashamed, but boasted of it, Ezek. 16:25.
- Hosea 2:3 For though this people were as an harlot for their idolatries, yet he had left them with their apparel and dowry and certain signs of his favor, but if they continued still, he would utterly destroy them.
- Hosea 2:3 When I brought her out of Egypt, Ezek. 16:4.
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