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Hosea 2

¹Say ye vnto your brethren, Ammi, & to your sisters, Ruhamah:

²Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whordomes out of her sight, and her adulteries from betweene her breasts;

³Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that shee was borne, and make her as a wildernesse, and set her like a drie land, and slay her with thirst.

⁴And I will not haue mercy vpon her children, for they be the children of whordomes.

⁵For their mother hath played the harlot: shee that conceiued them hath done shamefully: for shee sayd, I will goe after my louers, that giue me my bread and my water, my wooll and my flaxe, mine oyle, and my drinke.

⁶Therefore behold, I will hedge vp thy way with thornes, and make a wall, that she shall not find her pathes.

⁷And she shall follow after her louers, but she shall not ouertake them, and she shall seeke them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will goe and returne to my first husband, for then was it better with me then now.

⁸For she did not know that I gaue her corne, and wine, and oyle, and multiplied her siluer and gold, which they prepared for Baal.

⁹Therefore will I returne, and take away my Corne in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and wil recouer my wooll and my flaxe giuen to couer her nakednesse.

¹⁰And now will I discouer her lewdnesse in the sight of her louers, and none shall deliuer her out of mine hand.

¹¹I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast daies, her new moones, and her Sabbaths, and all her solemne feasts.

¹²And I will destroy her vines and her figge trees, whereof she hath said; These are my rewards that my louers haue giuen me: and I will make them a forrest, and the beasts of the field shall eate them.

¹³And I will visite vpon her the daies of Baalim, wherein she burnt incense to them, and she decked her selfe with her eare-rings, and her Iewels, and she went after her louers, and forgate me, saith the Lord.

¹⁴Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wildernesse, and speake comfortably vnto her.

¹⁵And I wil giue her, her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a doore of hope, and she shall sing there, as in the dayes of her youth, and as in the day when she came vp out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁶And it shall be at that day, saith the Lord, that thou shalt call mee Ishi; and shalt call mee no more Baali.

¹⁷For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, & they shal no more be remembred by their name.

¹⁸And in that day will I make a couenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the foules of heauen, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will breake the bow and the sword, and the battell out of the earth, and will make them to lie downe safely.

¹⁹And I will betroth thee vnto me for euer; yea, I will betroth thee vnto me in righteousnesse, and in iudgement, and in louing kindnesse, and in mercies.

²⁰I will euen betroth thee vnto me in faithfulnesse, and thou shalt know the Lord.

²¹And it shall come to passe in that day, I will heare, saith the Lord, I will heare the heauens, and they shall heare the earth,

²²And the earth shall heare the corne, and the wine, and the oyle, and they shall heare Iezreel.

²³And I will sow her vnto me in the earth, and I will haue mercy vpon her that had not obtained mercy, and I will say to them which were not my people; Thou art my people, and they shallsay, Thou art my God.