Old Testament · Prophets

Hosea chapter 2

Confront your — confront her! She is not my , and I am not her husband. Tell her to wipe the look of a from her face and remove the signs of adultery from between her breasts.Otherwise I will , lay her bare as the day she was born, make her like a , turn her into a parched wasteland, and let her die of thirst.I will show no to her children, because they are children born from .Their mother has been unfaithful. The one who conceived them has acted shamefully. She said, ‘I’ll chase after my — the ones who give me my , my wool and linen, my oil and drink.’So watch — I’m going to block her path with and so she can’t find her way.She will chase her lovers but never catch them, search for them but never find them. Then she’ll say, ‘I’m going back to my — things were better for me then than they are now.’She never acknowledged that I was the one who gave her the — who lavished silver and gold on her, which they used to make images of .So now I’m going to my grain at harvest and my new wine when it ripens. I’ll reclaim my wool and linen that were meant to cover her nakedness.Now I will expose her in full view of her lovers, and no one will be able to rescue her from my hand.I will put an end to all her celebrations — her , her , her , all her appointed feasts.I will devastate her — the ones she said, ‘These are my from my lovers.’ I’ll turn them into wild thickets, and animals will devour them.I will hold her accountable for all the days she burned offerings to the , when she decked herself with rings and jewelry and chased after her lovers but completely. — this is .But look — I am going to . I’ll lead her out into the and .Right there I will give her back her vineyards and turn the into a . She will respond there like she did when she was young, like the day she .On that day — this is Yahweh’s declaration — you will call me ‘’ and never again call me ‘.’I will of the Baals from her lips; their names will never be spoken again.On that day I will make a for them with the wild animals, the birds, and the creatures that crawl on the ground. I will shatter every bow, sword, and weapon of war in the land and let them .I will forever. I will make you mine through and through , through and through .I will make you mine through , and you will truly .On that day I will — this is Yahweh’s declaration — I will respond to the sky, and the sky will respond to the earth.The earth will respond to the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil, and they will respond to .I will for myself in the land. I will show compassion to the one I called ‘.’ I will say to the ones I called ‘’: ‘You are my people.’ And they will say, ‘.’On that day I will — this is Yahweh’s declaration. I will respond to the skies, and they will respond to the earth.