Hosea 2

Thomson(i) 1 say ye to your brother, My people, and to your sister, Compassionated; 2 emplead your mother, emplead, because with regard to her, is she not my wife? And as for me, am not I her husband? Therefore I will remove her fornication from before me and her adultery from between her breasts. 3 That I may do this I will strip her naked, and reduce her to the state she was in at her birth. I will indeed make her desolate, and order her to a land without water and kill her with thirst, 4 and on her children I will not have compassion. Because they are children of fornication; 5 because their mother hath committed whoredom; she, who brought them forth hath acted shamefully; because she said, "I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, and my apparel and my fine linens, mine oil and all things convenient for me;" 6 for this behold I will hedge up her way with thorns; and block up her ways that she may not find her path. 7 Though she follow her lovers she shall not overtake them; though she seek them, she shall not find them. Then she will say, "I will go and return to my former husband, for it was then better with me than now. 8 She indeed did not acknowledge that I gave her the corn and wine and oil; and multiplied silver for her: but she made ornaments of gold and silver for Baal: 9 therefore I will turn and take away my corn in its season, and my wine in its appointed time; and I will take away my garments and my fine linens, that she may not cover her nakedness: 10 and I will now disclose her impurity before her lovers; and none shall deliver her out of my hand. 11 I will indeed turn away all her pleasures, her festivals, and her new moons and her sabbaths and all her solemn assemblies. 12 And I will lay waste her vineyards and her fig orchards; all those things respecting which she said, "these are my rewards which my lovers gave me;" and I will make them for a memorial; and the wild beasts of the field and the birds of the air, and the reptiles of the earth shall devour them. 13 And I will punish her for the days of the baleims in which she sacrificed to them. when she had put on her ear rings and her jewels, she went after her lovers and forgot me, saith the Lord; 14 therefore behold I will cause her to wander, and order her to a wilderness and speak to her heart. 15 And thence I will give her for her possessions, even the valley of Achor to open her understanding: and she shall be humbled there as in the days of her youth, even as in the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt. 16 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that she will call me My husband; and no more call me Baalim. 17 I will indeed take away the names of the Baalims out of her mouth, and their names shall no more be mentioned. 18 And in that day I will make a covenant for them, with the wild beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the reptiles of the earth; and bow and sword and battle I will crush out of the land; and I will settle thee securely 19 and betroth thee to myself forever. I will indeed betroth thee to myself by righteousness and by judgment and by compassion and by tender mercies: 20 and I will betroth thee to myself by fidelity; and thou shalt acknowledge the Lord. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that I will hearken to the heaven, and it shall hearken to the earth, 22 and the earth shall hear the corn and the wine and the oil, and they shall hearken to Jezrael; 23 and I will plant her for myself in the land, and love her who was not beloved; and to them who were not my people I will say, "Thou art my people:" and they will say, "Thou the Lord art my God."