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CHAP. II.
1 The idolatrie of the people. 6 Gods iudgements against them. 14 His promises of reconciliation with them.
1 Say ye vnto your brethren, Ammi, & to your sisters, Ruhamah:1
2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whordomes out of her sight, and her adulteries from betweene her breasts;2
3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that shee was borne, and make her as a wildernesse, and set her like a drie land, and slay her with thirst.3
4 And I will not haue mercy vpon her children, for they be the children of whordomes.
5 For their mother hath played the harlot: shee that conceiued them hath done shamefully: for shee sayd, I will goe after my louers, that giue me my bread and my water, my wooll and my flaxe, mine oyle, and my drinke.5
6 ¶ Therefore behold, I will hedge vp thy way with thornes, and make a wall, that she shall not find her pathes.6
8 For she did not know that I gaue her corne, and wine, and oyle, and multiplied her siluer and gold, which they prepared for Baal.8
9 Therefore will I returne, and take away my Corne in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and wil recouer my wooll and my flaxe giuen to couer her nakednesse.9
10 And now will I discouer her lewdnesse in the sight of her louers, and none shall deliuer her out of mine hand.10
12 And I will destroy her vines and her figge trees, whereof she hath said; These are my rewards that my louers haue giuen me: and I will make them a forrest, and the beasts of the field shall eate them.12
14 ¶ Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wildernesse, and speake comfortably vnto her.14
16 And it shall be at that day, saith the Lord, that thou shalt call mee Ishi; and shalt call mee no more Baali.16
18 And in that day will I make a couenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the foules of heauen, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will breake the bow and the sword, and the battell out of the earth, and will make them to lie downe safely.18
20 I will euen betroth thee vnto me in faithfulnesse, and thou shalt know the Lord.
22 And the earth shall heare the corne, and the wine, and the oyle, and they shall heare Iezreel.
23 And I will sow her vnto me in the earth, and I will haue mercy vpon her that had not obtained mercy, and I will say to them which were not my people; Thou art my people, and they shallsay, Thou art my God.23
Hosea Chapter 2 Sidenote References (from Original 1611 KJV Bible):
1 That is, my people. , That is, hauing obtained mercy.
2 Isai.50.1. , Eze.16.25
3 Eze.16.4.
5 Heb. drinks
6 Heb. wall a wall.
8 Heb. new wine. , Or, wherewith they made Baal.
9 Or, take away.
10 Heb. folly or villanie.
12 Heb. make desolate.
14 Or, friendly. Heb. to her heart.
16 That is, my husband. , That is, my Lord.
18 Iob.5. 23.
23 Rom.9. 26. 1.pet.2. 10.
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