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HO-2:1 Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters,
Ruhamah.
HO-2:2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she [is] not my wife,
neither [am] I her husband: let her therefore put away her
whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her
breasts;
HO-2:3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that
she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a
dry land, and slay her with thirst.
HO-2:4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they
[be] the children of whoredoms.
HO-2:5 For their mother hath played the harlot: she that
conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go
after my lovers, that give [me] my bread and my water, my wool
and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
HO-2:6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns,
and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
HO-2:7 And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not
overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find
[them]: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first
husband; for then [was it] better with me than now.
HO-2:8 For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and
oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, [which] they prepared
for Baal.
HO-2:9 Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the
time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will
recover my wool and my flax [given] to cover her nakedness.
HO-2:10 And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her
lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
HO-2:11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days,
her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
HO-2:12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof
she hath said, These [are] my rewards that my lovers have given
me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field
shall eat them.
HO-2:13 And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein
she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her
earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and
forgat me, saith the LORD.
HO-2:14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into
the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
HO-2:15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the
valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as
in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out
of the land of Egypt.
HO-2:16 And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, [that] thou
shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.
HO-2:17 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her
mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
HO-2:18 And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the
beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and [with]
the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and
the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to
lie down safely.
HO-2:19 And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will
betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in
lovingkindness, and in mercies.
HO-2:20 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and
thou shalt know the LORD.
HO-2:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear,
saith the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the
earth;
HO-2:22 And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the
oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.
HO-2:23 And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have
mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to
[them which were] not my people, Thou [art] my people; and they
shall say, [Thou art] my God.
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