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Hosea 2 New International Version (NIV)

2 ^[a]“Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’^(A)

Israel Punished and Restored

²“Rebuke your mother,^(B) rebuke her,
    for she is not my wife,
    and I am not her husband.
Let her remove the adulterous^(C) look from her face
    and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.
³Otherwise I will strip^(D) her naked
    and make her as bare as on the day she was born;^(E)
I will make her like a desert,^(F)
    turn her into a parched land,
    and slay her with thirst.
⁴I will not show my love to her children,^(G)
    because they are the children of adultery.^(H)
⁵Their mother has been unfaithful
    and has conceived them in disgrace.
She said, ‘I will go after my lovers,^(I)
    who give me my food and my water,
    my wool and my linen, my olive oil and my drink.’^(J)
⁶Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes;
    I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.^(K)
⁷She will chase after her lovers but not catch them;
    she will look for them but not find them.^(L)
Then she will say,
    ‘I will go back to my husband^(M) as at first,^(N)
    for then I was better off^(O) than now.’
⁸She has not acknowledged^(P) that I was the one
    who gave her the grain, the new wine and oil,^(Q)
who lavished on her the silver and gold^(R)—
    which they used for Baal.^(S)

⁹“Therefore I will take away my grain^(T) when it ripens,
    and my new wine^(U) when it is ready.
I will take back my wool and my linen,
    intended to cover her naked body.
¹⁰So now I will expose^(V) her lewdness
    before the eyes of her lovers;^(W)
    no one will take her out of my hands.^(X)
¹¹I will stop^(Y) all her celebrations:^(Z)
    her yearly festivals, her New Moons,
    her Sabbath days—all her appointed festivals.^(AA)
¹²I will ruin her vines^(AB) and her fig trees,^(AC)
    which she said were her pay from her lovers;^(AD)
I will make them a thicket,^(AE)
    and wild animals will devour them.^(AF)
¹³I will punish her for the days
    she burned incense^(AG) to the Baals;^(AH)
she decked herself with rings and jewelry,^(AI)
    and went after her lovers,^(AJ)
    but me she forgot,^(AK)”
declares the Lord.^(AL)

¹⁴“Therefore I am now going to allure her;
    I will lead her into the wilderness^(AM)
    and speak tenderly to her.
¹⁵There I will give her back her vineyards,
    and will make the Valley of Achor^[b]^(AN) a door of hope.
There she will respond^[c]^(AO) as in the days of her youth,^(AP)
    as in the day she came up out of Egypt.^(AQ)

¹⁶“In that day,” declares the Lord,
    “you will call me ‘my husband’;^(AR)
    you will no longer call me ‘my master.^[d]’
¹⁷I will remove the names of the Baals from her lips;^(AS)
    no longer will their names be invoked.^(AT)
¹⁸In that day I will make a covenant for them
    with the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky
    and the creatures that move along the ground.^(AU)
Bow and sword and battle
    I will abolish^(AV) from the land,
    so that all may lie down in safety.^(AW)
¹⁹I will betroth^(AX) you to me forever;
    I will betroth you in^[e] righteousness and justice,^(AY)
    in^[f] love and compassion.^(AZ)
²⁰I will betroth you in^[g] faithfulness,
    and you will acknowledge^(BA) the Lord.^(BB)

²¹“In that day I will respond,”
    declares the Lord—
“I will respond^(BC) to the skies,
    and they will respond to the earth;
²²and the earth will respond to the grain,
    the new wine and the olive oil,^(BD)
    and they will respond to Jezreel.^[h]^(BE)
²³I will plant^(BF) her for myself in the land;
    I will show my love to the one I called ‘Not my loved one.^[i]^(BG)’
I will say to those called ‘Not my people,^[j]’ ‘You are my people’;^(BH)
    and they will say, ‘You are my God.^(BI)’”

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