Hosea 2 Free Bible Version
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1 “On that day you will call your brothers Ammi, and you will call your sisters Ruhamah.
1 DECID á vuestros hermanos, Ammi, y á vuestras hermanas, Ruhama:
2 Condemn your mother, condemn her because she is not my wife and I am not her husband. Tell her to stop looking like a prostitute—get rid of the makeup and the provocative clothing.
2 Pleitead con vuestra madre, pleitead; porque ella no es mi mujer, ni yo su marido; quite pues sus fornicaciones de su rostro, y sus adulterios de entre sus pechos;
3 Otherwise I will strip her naked as the day she was born, and make her like a desert, a barren land, and let her die of thirst.
3 No sea que yo la despoje desnuda, y la haga tornar como el día en que nació, y la ponga como un desierto, y la deje como tierra seca, y la mate de sed.
4 I will have no pity on her children, because they are children of prostitution.
4 Ni tendré misericordia de sus hijos: porque son hijos de fornicaciones.
5 For their mother was a prostitute who conceived them in a shameful way. She said, ‘I'll run after my lovers who give me my food and water, my wool and flax and olive oil, and my drink.’
5 Porque su madre fornicó; la que los engendró fué avergonzada; porque dijo: Iré tras mis amantes, que me dan mi pan y mi agua, mi lana y mi lino, mi aceite y mi bebida.
6 That is why I am going to block her path with thorn bushes, and build a stone wall to stop her so she won't find her way.
6 Por tanto, he aquí yo cerco tu camino con espinas, y la cercaré con seto, y no hallará sus caminos.
7 When she runs after her lovers she won't catch up with them; she'll look for them but she won't find them. Then she'll say, ‘Let me go back to my former husband, because it was better for me then than now.’
7 Y seguirá sus amantes, y no los alcanzará; buscarálos, y no los hallará. Entonces dirá: Iré, y volveréme á mi primer marido; porque mejor me iba entonces que ahora.
8 She doesn't consider that it was me who gave her grain, new wine, and olive oil, nor the silver and the gold which I gave her abundantly that they made into an idol of Baal.
8 Y ella no reconoció que yo le daba el trigo, y el vino, y el aceite, y que les multipliqué la plata y el oro con que hicieron á Baal.
9 So I will take back my ripened grain and my new wine I gave at harvest-time. I will take back my wool and my flax I provided to cover her nakedness.
9 Por tanto yo tornaré, y tomaré mi trigo á su tiempo, y mi vino á su sazón, y quitaré mi lana y mi lino [que había dado] para cubrir su desnudez.
10 I will strip her naked while her lovers watch; no one will be able to rescue her from me.
10 Y ahora descubriré yo su locura delante de los ojos de sus amantes, y nadie la librará de mi mano.
11 I will put a stop to all her festivities: her feasts, new moon celebrations, special Sabbaths—all her festivals.
11 Y haré cesar todo su gozo, sus fiestas, sus nuevas lunas y sus sábados, y todas sus festividades.
12 I will destroy her vines and fig trees that she said were given to her as payment for being a prostitute. I will turn them into scrub-land; only wild animals will eat the remaining fruit.
12 Y haré talar sus vides y sus higueras, de que ha dicho: Mi salario me son, que me han dado mis amantes. Y reducirélas á un matorral, y las comerán las bestias del campo.
13 I will punish her for all the times she offered incense to Baal, dressing herself up, putting on rings and jewelry, going after her lovers, but forgetting about me, declares the Lord.
13 Y visitaré sobre ella los tiempos de los Baales, á los cuales incensaba, y adornábase de sus zarcillos y de sus joyeles, é íbase tras sus amantes olvidada de mí, dice Jehová.
14 See what I'm going to do! I will win her back, taking her into the desert where I will speak to her heart-to-heart.
14 Empero he aquí, yo la induciré, y la llevaré al desierto, y hablaré á su corazón.
15 There I will return her vineyards to her and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. There she will respond to me as she did when she was young, as in the time when she left the land of Egypt.
15 Y daréle sus viñas desde allí, y el valle de Achôr por puerta de esperanza; y allí cantará como en los tiempos de su juventud, y como en el día de su subida de la tierra de Egipto.
16 Then on that day, says the Lord, you will call me ‘my husband’ and not ‘my Baal.’
16 Y será que en aquel tiempo, dice Jehová, me llamarás Marido mío, y nunca más me llamarás Baali.
17 I will stop her appealing to the Baals—their names won't be mentioned ever again.
17 Porque quitaré de su boca los nombres de los Baales, y nunca más serán mentados por sus nombres.
18 At that time I will make a solemn agreement with the wild animals and the birds of the sky and the creeping things of the ground. I will do away with the bow and the sword; I will abolish war from the land so you can lie down in safety.
18 Y haré por ellos concierto en aquel tiempo con las bestias del campo, y con las aves del cielo, y con las serpientes de la tierra: y quebraré arco, y espada, y batalla de la tierra, y harélos dormir seguros.
19 I will make you my wife forever; I will make you my wife in goodness and justice and love and mercy.
19 Y te desposaré conmigo para siempre; desposarte he conmigo en justicia, y juicio, y misericordia, y miseraciones.
20 I will be faithful to you, my wife, and you will know me as the Lord.
20 Y te desposaré conmigo en fe, y conocerás á Jehová.
21 On that day, declares the Lord, I will answer the heavens and they will answer the earth.
21 Y será que en aquel tiempo responderé, dice Jehová, yo responderé á los cielos, y ellos responderán á la tierra;
22 The earth will answer the grain, and the new wine, and the olive oil, and they shall answer, ‘Jezreel’ (God sows).
22 Y la tierra responderá al trigo, y al vino, y al aceite, y ellos responderán á Jezreel.
23 I will ‘sow’ her for myself in the earth. I will love Lo-ruhamah (unloved) and I will say ‘You are my people’ to Lo-ammi (not my people), and they will say, ‘You are my God.’”
23 Y sembraréla para mí en la tierra, y tendré misericordia de Lo-ruhama: y diré á Lo-ammi: Pueblo mío tú; y él dirá: Dios mío.
Cross references (23)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 1 Peter 2:10; Romans 11:30–31; 1 Timothy 1:13; Hosea 2:23; Ezekiel 37:27
- 2 Isaiah 50:1; Ezekiel 23:45; Jeremiah 3:13; Ezekiel 16:25; Jeremiah 3:1
- 3 Ezekiel 16:22; Isaiah 32:13–14; Amos 8:11–13; Ezekiel 19:13; Jeremiah 13:22
- 4 Ezekiel 8:18; James 2:13; Hosea 1:2; Jeremiah 13:14; Hosea 1:6
- 5 Jeremiah 44:17–18; Hosea 3:1; Isaiah 1:21; Hosea 2:8; Jeremiah 3:1–9
- 6 Job 19:8; Lamentations 3:7–9; Job 3:23; Luke 19:43
- 7 Jeremiah 2:2; Luke 15:17–20; Jeremiah 14:22; Hosea 5:13; Ezekiel 23:22
- 8 Isaiah 1:3; Hosea 8:4; Romans 1:28; Hosea 4:11; Ezekiel 16:16–19
- 9 Isaiah 17:10–11; Malachi 1:4; Hosea 2:3; Haggai 1:6–11; Ezekiel 23:26
- 10 Ezekiel 23:29; Luke 12:2–3; Hosea 2:3; Isaiah 3:17; Hosea 13:7–8
- 11 Isaiah 1:13–14; Amos 5:21; Amos 8:5; Jeremiah 7:34; Jeremiah 16:9
- 12 Isaiah 5:5; Isaiah 7:23; Hosea 2:5; Hosea 13:8; Jeremiah 8:13
- 13 Judges 3:7; Hosea 13:6; Hosea 13:1; Hosea 11:2; Jeremiah 7:9
- 14 Isaiah 40:1–2; Ezekiel 20:35–36; Revelation 12:6; Isaiah 30:18; Genesis 34:3
- 15 Jeremiah 2:2; Ezekiel 28:26; Hosea 11:1; Joshua 7:26; Ezekiel 16:60
- 16 Isaiah 54:5; Hosea 2:7; Revelation 19:7; Jeremiah 3:14; John 3:29
- 17 Exodus 23:13; Psalm 16:4; Joshua 23:7; Zechariah 13:2; Jeremiah 10:11
- 18 Ezekiel 34:25; Ezekiel 39:9–10; Psalm 46:9; Isaiah 11:6–9; Jeremiah 23:6
- 19 2 Corinthians 11:2; Revelation 21:2; Isaiah 54:14; Isaiah 54:8–10; John 3:29
- 20 John 17:3; 1 John 4:6; 1 John 5:20; Jeremiah 24:7; Colossians 1:10
- 21 Zechariah 8:12; Isaiah 65:24; Matthew 6:33; Isaiah 55:10; Romans 8:32
- 22 Joel 2:19; Hosea 1:11; Hosea 1:4; Jeremiah 31:12
- 23 Romans 9:25–26; 1 Peter 2:9–10; Zechariah 13:9; Hosea 1:9–10; Romans 3:29
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And what are the nuptial pledges of the Virgin, the holy bride? And I will betroth thee unto Me in faithfulness.
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