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Hosea 2 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

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Israel’s Unfaithfulness Condemned

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[fn]Say to your brothers, “[fn]Ammi,” and to your sisters, “[fn]Ruhamah.”

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“Dispute with your mother, dispute,

Because she is not my wife, and I am not her husband;

But she must remove her infidelity from her face

And her adultery from between her breasts,

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Otherwise, I will strip her naked

And expose her as on the day she was born.

I will also make her like a wilderness,

Make her like desert land,

And put her to death with thirst.

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“Also, I will take no pity on her children,

Because they are children of infidelity.

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“For their mother has committed prostitution;

She who conceived them has acted shamefully.

For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,

Who give me my bread and my water,

My wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’

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“Therefore, behold, I will obstruct [fn]her way with thorns,

And I will build [fn]a stone wall against her so that she cannot find her paths.

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“And she will pursue her lovers, but she will not reach them;

And she will seek them, but will not find them.

Then she will say, ‘I will go back to my first husband,

Because it was better for me then than now!’

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“Yet she does not know that it was I myself who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil,

And lavished on her silver and gold,

Which they [fn]used for Baal.

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“Therefore, I will [fn]take back My grain at [fn]harvest time

And My new wine in its season.

I will also take away My wool and My flax

That I gave to cover her nakedness.

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“So now I will uncover her [fn]lewdness

Before the eyes of her lovers,

And no one will rescue her from My hand.

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“I will also put an end to all her joy,

Her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths,

And all her festivals.

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“And I will destroy her vines and fig trees,

Of which she said, ‘They are my wages for prostitution

Which my lovers have given me.’

And I will turn them into a forest,

And the animals of the field will devour them.

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“I will punish her for the days of the Baals

When she used to [fn]offer sacrifices to them

And adorn herself with her nose ring and jewelry,

And follow her lovers, so that she forgot Me,” declares the LORD.

Restoration of Israel

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“Therefore, behold, I am going to persuade her,

Bring her into the wilderness,

And speak [fn]kindly to her.

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“Then I will give her her vineyards from there,

And the [fn]Valley of Achor as a door of hope.

And she will [fn]respond there as in the days of her youth,

As in the day when she went up from the land of Egypt.

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“And it will come about on that day,” declares the LORD,

“That you will call Me [fn]my husband

And no longer call Me my [fn]Baal.

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“For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth,

So that they will no longer be [fn]mentioned by their names.

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“On that day I will also make a covenant for them

With the animals of the field,

The birds of the sky,

And the crawling things of the ground.

And I will [fn]eliminate the bow, the sword, and war from the land,

And will let them lie down in safety.

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“I will betroth you to Me forever;

Yes, I will betroth you to Me in righteousness and in justice,

In favor and in compassion,

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And I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness.

Then you will know the LORD.

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“And it will come about on that day that I will respond,” declares the LORD.

“I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth,

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And the earth will respond to the grain, to the new wine, and to the oil,

And they will respond to [fn]Jezreel.

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“I will sow her for Myself in the land.

I will also have compassion on [fn]her who had not obtained compassion,

And I will say to [fn]those who were not My people,

‘You are My people!’

And [fn]they will say, ‘You are my God!’”

NASB20 Footnotes
Ch 2:3 in Heb
I.e., my people
I.e., she has obtained compassion
As in some ancient versions; MT your
Lit her stone wall so that
Or made into the
Lit return and take My
Lit its time
Or shame
Or burn incense
Lit upon her heart
Lit Valley of Trouble
Or give answer
Heb Ishi
Also meaning husband in Heb, besides a name for false gods
Or remembered
Lit break
I.e., God sows
Heb Lo-ruhamah
Heb Lo-ammi
Lit he
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