Hosea 2

Revised Geneva Translation

2 “Say to your brethren, ‘Ammi,’ and to your sisters, ‘Ruhamah!’

² “Plead with your mother. Plead! For she is not My wife, nor am I her Husband. But let her take away her fornications out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts,

³ “lest I strip her naked and set her as in the day that she was born and make her as a wilderness and leave her like a dry land and kill her for thirst.

⁴ “And I will have no pity upon her children. For they are the children of fornication.

⁵ “For their mother has played the harlot. She who conceived them has done shamefully. For she said, ‘I will go after your lovers who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’

⁶ “Therefore, behold. I will hedge your way with thorns, so that she shall not find her paths.

⁷ “Though she follows after her lovers, she shall not overtake them. Though she seeks them, she shall not find them. Then she shall say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband. for I was better off at that time than now.’

⁸ “Now, she did not know that I gave her grain, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they bestowed upon Baal.

⁹ “Therefore, I will return and take away My grain in its time, and My wine in its season, and will recover My wool and My flax, to cover her shame.

¹⁰ “And now I will discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers. And no man shall deliver her out of My Hand.

¹¹ “I will also cause all her joy to cease, her Feast days, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her solemn Feasts.

¹² “And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, of which she has said, ‘These are my rewards that my lovers have given me.’ And I will make them as a forest. And the wild beasts shall eat them.

¹³ “And I will visit the days of Baal upon her, during which she burnt incense to them. And she adorned herself with her earrings and her jewels. And she followed her lovers, and forgot Me,” says the LORD.

¹⁴ “Therefore behold, I will allure her and bring her into the wilderness and speak friendly to her.

¹⁵ “And I will give her her vineyards from there, and the Valley of Achor for a door of hope. And she shall sing there as in the days of her youth, and as on the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁶ “And at that time,” says the LORD, “you shall call me Ishi, and shall no longer call me Baali.

¹⁷ “For I will take the names of Baal out of her mouth. And they shall no longer be remembered by their names.

¹⁸ “And on that day, I will make a Covenant for them with the wild beasts, and with the birds of the heaven, and with that which creeps upon the earth. And I will break the bow and the sword and the battle from the Earth and will make them sleep safely.

¹⁹ “And I will marry you to Me forever. Yea, I will marry you to Me in righteousness and in judgment and in mercy and in compassion.

²⁰ “I will even marry you to Me in faithfulness. And you shall know the LORD.

²¹ “And on that day, I will hear,” says the LORD, “I will hear the heavens. And they shall hear the Earth.

²² “And the Earth shall hear the grain and the wine and the oil. And they shall hear Jezreel.

²³ “And I will sow her to Me in the earth. And I will have mercy upon her who was not pitied. And I will say to those who were not My people, ‘You are My people.’ And they shall say, ‘You are my God.’”