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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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