Hosea 2 Clementine Vulgate
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1 Dicite fratribus vestris: Populus meus; et sorori vestræ: Misericordiam consecuta.
1 “Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’ and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’
2 [Judicate matrem vestram, judicate, quoniam ipsa non uxor mea, et ego non vir ejus. Auferat fornicationes suas a facie sua, et adulteria sua de medio uberum suorum;
2 Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
3 ne forte expoliem eam nudam, et statuam eam secundum diem nativitatis suæ, et ponam eam quasi solitudinem, et statuam eam velut terram inviam, et interficiam eam siti.
3 lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.
4 Et filiorum illius non miserebor, quoniam filii fornicationum sunt.
4 Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy, for they are children of unfaithfulness.
5 Quia fornicata est mater eorum, confusa est quæ concepit eos; quia dixit: Vadam post amatores meos, qui dant panes mihi, et aquas meas, lanam meam, et linum meum, oleum meum, et potum meum.
5 For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done 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.’
6 Propter hoc ecce ego sepiam viam tuam spinis, et sepiam eam maceria, et semitas suas non inveniet.
6 Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way.
7 Et sequetur amatores suos, et non apprehendet eos; et quæret eos, et non inveniet: et dicet: Vadam, et revertar ad virum meum priorem, quia bene mihi erat tunc magis quam nunc.
7 She will follow after her lovers, but she won’t overtake them; and she will seek them, but won’t find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband, for then it was better with me than now.’
8 Et hæc nescivit, quia ego dedi ei frumentum, et vinum, et oleum, et argentum multiplicavi ei, et aurum, quæ fecerunt Baal.
8 For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
9 Idcirco convertar, et sumam frumentum meum in tempore suo, et vinum meum in tempore suo. Et liberabo lanam meam et linum meum, quæ operiebant ignominiam ejus.
9 Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.
10 Et nunc revelabo stultitiam ejus in oculis amatorum ejus; et vir non eruet eam de manu mea;
10 Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand.
11 et cessare faciam omne gaudium ejus, solemnitatem ejus, neomeniam ejus, sabbatum ejus, et omnia festa tempora ejus.
11 I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
12 Et corrumpam vineam ejus, et ficum ejus, de quibus dixit: Mercedes hæ meæ sunt, quas dederunt mihi amatores mei; et ponam eam in saltum, et comedet eam bestia agri.
12 I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me,’ and I will make them a forest, and the animals of the field shall eat them.
13 Et visitabo super eam dies Baalim, quibus accendebat incensum, et ornabatur in aure sua, et monili suo. Et ibat post amatores suos, et mei obliviscebatur, dicit Dominus.
13 I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers and forgot me,” says Yahweh.
14 Propter hoc ecce ego lactabo eam, et ducam eam in solitudinem, et loquar ad cor ejus.
14 “Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.
15 Et dabo ei vinitores ejus ex eodem loco, et vallem Achor, ad aperiendam spem; et canet ibi juxta dies juventutis suæ, et juxta dies ascensionis suæ de terra Ægypti.
15 I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
16 Et erit in die illa, ait Dominus: vocabit me, Vir meus, et non vocabit me ultra Baali.
16 It will be in that day,” says Yahweh, “that you will call me ‘my husband,’ and no longer call me ‘my master.’
17 Et auferam nomina Baalim de ore ejus, et non recordabitur ultra nominis eorum.
17 For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by name.
18 Et percutiam cum eis fœdus in die illa, cum bestia agri, et cum volucre cæli, et cum reptili terræ; et arcum, et gladium, et bellum conteram de terra, et dormire eos faciam fiducialiter.
18 In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, and will make them lie down safely.
19 Et sponsabo te mihi in sempiternum; et sponsabo te mihi in justitia, et judicio, et in misericordia, et in miserationibus.
19 I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.
20 Et sponsabo te mihi in fide; et scies quia ego Dominus.
20 I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know Yahweh.
21 Et erit in die illa: exaudiam, dicit Dominus, exaudiam cælos, et illi exaudient terram.
21 It will happen in that day, that I will respond,” says Yahweh. “I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth;
22 Et terra exaudiet triticum, et vinum, et oleum, et hæc exaudient Jezrahel.
22 and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; and they will respond to Jezreel.
23 Et seminabo eam mihi in terra, et miserebor ejus quæ fuit Absque misericordia.
23 I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘You are My God!’”
24 Et dicam Non populo meo: Populus meus es tu; et ipse dicet: Deus meus es tu.]
24 Not in this translation
Cross references (23)
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- 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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“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.
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