Hosea · Revised Version with Apocrypha
Hosea 2 Revised Version with Apocrypha
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Hosea is not in PT1904.
1 Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
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2 Plead with your mother, plead; for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: and let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
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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;
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4 Yea, upon her children will I have no mercy; for they be children of whoredom.
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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.
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6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will make a fence against her, that she shall not find her paths.
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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.
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8 For she did not know that I gave her the corn, and the wine, and the oil, and multiplied unto her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
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9 Therefore will I take back my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.
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10 And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
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11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
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12 And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my hire that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
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13 And I will visit upon her the days of the Baalim, unto which she burned incense; when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.
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14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
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15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall make answer there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
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16 And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.
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17 For I will take away the names of the Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be mentioned by their name.
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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 land, and will make them to lie down safely.
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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.
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20 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.
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21 And it shall come to pass in that day, I will answer, saith the LORD, I will answer the heavens, and they shall answer the earth;
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22 and the earth shall answer the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall answer Jezreel.
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23 And I wilt 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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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
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
And what are the nuptial pledges of the Virgin, the holy bride? And I will betroth thee unto Me in faithfulness.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)