Hoshea, starting at chapter 1
{1:1} The word of the LORD that came to Hoshea the son of Be'eri, in
the days of `Uzziyah, Yotam, Achaz, and Hizkiyahu, kings of Yehudah,
and in the days of Yarov`am the son of Yo'ash, king of Yisra'el. {1:2}
When the LORD spoke at the first by Hoshea, the LORD said to Hoshea,
"Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of
unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery against from the
LORD."
{1:3} So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Divlayim; and she
conceived, and bore him a son.
{1:4} The LORD said to him, "Call his name Yizre`el; for yet a
little while, and I will avenge the blood of Yizre`el on the house of
Yehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Yisra'el to cease.
{1:5} It will happen in that day that I will break the bow of Yisra'el
in the valley of Yizre`el."
{1:6} She conceived again, and bore a daughter.
Then he said to him, "Call her name Lo-Ruhamah; for I will no longer
have mercy on the house of Yisra'el, that I should in any way pardon
them. {1:7} But I will have mercy on the house of Yehudah, and will
save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by
sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen."
{1:8} Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a
son.
{1:9} He said, "Call his name Lo-Ammi; for you are not my people,
and I will not be yours. {1:10} Yet the number of the children of
Yisra'el will be as the sand of the sea, which can't be measured nor
numbered; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was
said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'sons of
the living God.' {1:11} The children of Yehudah and the children of
Yisra'el will be gathered together, and they will appoint themselves
one head, and will go up from the land; for great will be the day of
Yizre`el.
{2:1} "Say to your brothers, 'My people!'
And to your sisters, 'My loved one!'
{2:2} 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;
{2:3} 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.
{2:4} Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy;
For they are children of unfaithfulness;
{2:5} 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.'
{2:6} 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.
{2:7} 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 was it better with me than now.'
{2:8} For she did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine,
and the oil,
And multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Ba`al.
{2:9} 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.
{2:10} Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers,
And no one will deliver her out of my hand.
{2:11} I will also cause all her celebrations to cease:
Her feasts, her new moons, her Shabbatot, and all her solemn
assemblies.
{2:12} 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.
{2:13} I will visit on her the days of the Ba`alim,
To which she burned incense,
When she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels,
And went after her lovers,
And forgot me," says the LORD.
{2:14} "Therefore, behold, I will allure her,
And bring her into the wilderness,
And speak tenderly to her.
{2:15} I will give her vineyards from there,
And the valley of `Akhor 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 Mitzrayim.
{2:16} It will be in that day," says the LORD,
"That you will call me 'my husband,'
And no longer call me 'my master.'
{2:17} For I will take away the names of the Ba`alim out of her mouth,
And they will no more be mentioned by their name.
{2:18} 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.
{2:19} I will betroth you to me forever.
Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in
lovingkindness, and in compassion.
{2:20} I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness;
And you shall know the LORD.
{2:21} It will happen in that day, I will respond," says the LORD,
I will respond to the heavens,
And they will respond to the [1>]eretz[<1];
{2:22} And the [2>]eretz[<2] will respond to the grain, and the new
wine, and the oil;
And they will respond to Yizre`el.
{2:23} I will sow her to me in the [3>]eretz[<3];
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, 'My God!'"
{3:1} The LORD said to me, "Go again, love a woman loved by another,
and an adulteress, even as the LORD loves the children of Yisra'el,
though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins."
{3:2} So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a
homer and a half of barley. {3:3} I said to her, "You shall stay with
me many days. You shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be
with any other man. I will also be so toward you."
{3:4} For the children of Yisra'el shall abide many days without
king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred
stone, and without efod or idols. {3:5} Afterward the children of
Yisra'el shall return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their
king, and shall come with trembling to the LORD and to his blessings
in the last days.
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Footnotes:
[1] {2:21} earth
[2] {2:22} earth
[3] {2:23} earth
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