Hosea:2:2-23

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* Strive ! Strive with your mother , for she is not My wife , and I am not her husband . Therefore , let her put away her harlotries from her face , and her adulteries from between her breasts , * that I not strip her naked and set her out as in the day that she was born , and make her as the wilderness , and place her like a dry land , and kill her with thirst . * And I will not have pity for her sons , for they are the sons of harlotries . * For their mother has prostituted herself ; she who conceived them has acted shamefully . For she said , I will go after my lovers who give my bread and my water , my wool and my flax , my oil and my drink . * Therefore , behold , I will hedge your way with thorns , and I will wall up her wall , that she shall not find her paths . * And she shall follow after her lovers , but she shall not overtake them . And she shall look for them , but she shall not find them . Then she shall say , I will go and return to my first husband , for then it was better with me than now . * For she did not know that I gave her grain and wine and oil , and I multiplied her silver and the gold they prepared for Baal . * So I will return and take My grain in its time , and My wine in its season . And I will take back My wool and My flax she uses to cover her nakedness . * And now I will uncover her shamefulness to the eyes of her lovers , and a man shall not deliver her out of My hand . * I will also cause all her joy to cease , her feast days , her new moons , and her sabbaths , and all her solemn feasts . * And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees , of which she has said , They are my rewards that my lovers have given me . And I will set them for a forest , and the beasts of the field shall eat them . * And I will visit on her the days of the Baals in which she burned incense to them . Yea , she adorned herself with her nose rings , and her jewels , and she went after her lovers and forgot Me , says Jehovah . * Therefore , behold , I will lure her and bring her to the wilderness , and speak to her heart . * And from there I will give her vineyards to her , and the valley of Achor for a door of hope . And she shall answer there as in the days of her youth , and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt . * And at that day , says Jehovah , you shall call Me , My husband ; and you shall no more call me , My Baal . * For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth ; and they shall no more be remembered by their name . * And in that day I will cut a covenant for them with the beasts of the field , and with the birds of the sky , and the creeping things of the ground . And I will break the bow and the sword , and the battle out of the earth , and I will make them to lie down safely . * And I will betroth you to Me forever . Yes , I will betroth you to Me in righteousness , and in judgment , and in mercy , and in compassions . * I will even betroth you to Me in faithfulness . And you shall know Jehovah . * And it shall be in that day , I will answer , says Jehovah . I will answer the heavens , and they shall answer the earth . * And the earth shall hear the grain , and the wine , and the oil ; and they shall hear Jezreel . * And I will sow her to Me in the earth . And I will have mercy on No Mercy . And I will say to Not My People , You are My people ! And they shall say , My God !

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