Hosea:2:2-23

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ylt @Hosea:2:2 @Plead ye with your mother -- plead , (For she [is ] not My wife , and I [am ] not her husband ,) And she turneth her whoredoms from before her , And her adulteries from between her breasts , ylt @Hosea:2:3 @Lest I strip her naked . And have set her up as [in ] the day of her birth , And have made her as a wilderness , And have set her as a dry land , And have put her to death with thirst . ylt @Hosea:2:4 @And her sons I do not pity , For sons of whoredoms [are ] they , ylt @Hosea:2:5 @For gone a-whoring hath their mother , Acted shamefully hath their conceiver , For she hath said , I go after my lovers , Those giving my bread and my water , My wool and my flax , my oil and my drink . ylt @Hosea:2:6 @Therefore , lo , I am hedging up thy way with thorns , And I have made for her a wall , And her paths she doth not find . ylt @Hosea:2:7 @And she hath pursued her lovers , And she doth not overtake them , And hath sought them , and doth not find , And she hath said : I go , and I turn back unto My first husband , For -- better to me then than now . ylt @Hosea:2:8 @And she knew not that I had given to her , The corn , and the new wine , and the oil . Yea , silver I did multiply to her , And the gold they prepared for Baal . ylt @Hosea:2:9 @Therefore do I turn back , And I have taken My corn in its season , And My new wine in its appointed time , And I have taken away My wool and My flax , covering her nakedness . ylt @Hosea:2:10 @And now do I reveal her dishonour before the eyes of her lovers , And none doth deliver her out of My hand . ylt @Hosea:2:11 @And I have caused to cease all her joy , Her festival , her new moon , and her sabbath , Even all her appointed times , ylt @Hosea:2:12 @And made desolate her vine and her fig-tree , Of which she said , A gift they [are ] to me , That my lovers have given to me , And I have made them for a forest , And consumed them hath a beast of the field . ylt @Hosea:2:13 @And I have charged on her the days of the Baalim , To whom she maketh perfume , And putteth on her ring and her ornament , And goeth after her lovers , And Me forgat -- an affirmation of Jehovah . ylt @Hosea:2:14 @Therefore , lo , I am enticing her , And have caused her to go to the wilderness , And I have spoken unto her heart , ylt @Hosea:2:15 @And given to her her vineyards from thence , And the valley of Achor for an opening of hope , And she hath responded there as in the days of her youth , And as in the day of her coming up out of the land of Egypt . ylt @Hosea:2:16 @And it hath come to pass , in that day , An affirmation of Jehovah , Thou dost call Me -- My husband , And dost not call Me any more -- My lord . ylt @Hosea:2:17 @And I have turned aside the names of the lords from her mouth , And they are not remembered any more by their name . ylt @Hosea:2:18 @And I have made to them a covenant in that day , with the beast of the field , And with the fowl of the heavens , And the creeping thing of the ground , And bow , and sword , and war I break from off the land , And have caused them to lie down confidently . ylt @Hosea:2:19 @And I have betrothed thee to Me to the age , And betrothed thee to Me in righteousness , And in judgment , and kindness , and mercies , ylt @Hosea:2:20 @And betrothed thee to Me in faithfulness , And thou hast known Jehovah . ylt @Hosea:2:21 @And it hath come to pass in that day , I answer -- an affirmation of Jehovah , I answer the heavens , and they answer the earth . ylt @Hosea:2:22 @And the earth doth answer the corn , And the new wine , and the oil , And they answer Jezreel . ylt @Hosea:2:23 @And I have sowed her to Me in the land , And I have pitied Lo-Ruhamah , And I have said to Lo-Ammi , My people thou [art ], and it saith , My God !'

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