Hosea:2

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* Say ye unto your (note :)Seeing that I have promised you deliverance , it remains that you encourage one another to embrace this promise , considering that you are my people on whom I will have mercy .(:note ) brethren , Ammi ; and to your sisters , Ruhamah . * Plead with your (note :)God shows that the fault was not in him , that he forsook them , but in their Synagogue , and their idolatries ; ( Isa_50:1 ).(:note ) mother , plead : for she [is ] not my wife , neither [am ] I her husband : let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight , and her adulteries Meaning that their idolatry was so great , that they were not ashamed , but boasted of it ; ( Eze_16:25 ). from between her breasts ; * Lest I strip her naked , and (note :)For even though his people were as a harlot for their idolatries , yet he had left them with their dress and dowry and certain signs of his favour , but if they continued still , he would utterly destroy them .(:note ) set her as in the day that she was When I brought her out of Egypt . {{See Eze_16:4 }} born , and make her as a wilderness , and set her like a dry land , and slay her with thirst . * And I will not have mercy upon her children ; for they [be ] the (note :)That is bastards , and begotten in adultery .(:note ) children of whoredoms . * For their mother hath played the harlot : she that conceived them hath done shamefully : for she said , I will go after my (note :)Meaning the idol which they served , and by whom they thought they had wealth and abundance .(:note ) lovers , that give [me ] my bread and my water , my wool and my flax , mine oil and my drink . * Therefore , behold , I will hedge up (note :)I will punish you so that you may then test whether your idols can help you , and bring you into such straightness that you will have no lust to play the harlot .(:note ) thy way with thorns , and make a wall , that she shall not find her paths . * And she shall follow after her lovers , but she shall not overtake them ; and she shall seek them , but shall not find [them ]: then shall she say , (note :)This he speaks of the faithful , who are truly converted , and also shows the use and profit of God 's punishments .(:note ) I will go and return to my first husband ; for then [was it ] better with me than now . * For she did not know that I (note :)This declares that idolaters defraud God of his honour , when they attribute his benefits to their idols .(:note ) gave her corn , and wine , and oil , and multiplied her silver and gold , [which ] they prepared for Baal . * Therefore will I return , and take away (note :)Signifying that God will take away his benefits , when man by his ingratitude abuses them .(:note ) my corn in the time thereof , and my wine in the season thereof , and will recover my wool and my flax [given ] to cover her nakedness . * And now will I discover her (note :)That is , all her service , ceremonies , and inventions by which she worshipped her idols .(:note ) lewdness in the sight of her lovers , and none shall deliver her out of mine hand . * I will also cause all her mirth to cease , her feast daies , her newe moones , and her Sabbathes , and all her solemne feasts . * And I wil destroy her vines &amp ; her figtrees , whereof she hath said , These are my rewards that my louers haue giuen mee : and I will make them as a forest , and the wilde beasts shall eate them . * And I will visit upon her the days of (note :)I will punish her for her idolatry .(:note ) Baalim , wherein she burned incense to them , and she decked herself with her By showing how harlots trim themselves to please others , he declares how superstitious idolaters set a great part of their religion in adorning themselves on their holy days . earrings and her jewels , and she went after her lovers , and forgat me , saith the LORD . * Therefore , behold , I will (note :)By my benefits in offering her grace and mercy , even in that place where she will think herself destitute of all help and comfort .(:note ) allure her , and bring her into the wilderness , and speak comfortably unto her . * And I will give her her vineyards from thence , and the valley (note :)Which was a plentiful valley , and in which they had great comfort when they came out of the wilderness , as in ( Jos_7:26 ), and is called the door of hope , because it was a departing from death and an entry into life .(:note ) of Achor for a door of hope : and she shall She will then praise God as she did when she was delivered out of Egypt . sing there , as in the days of her youth , and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt . * And it shall be at that day , saith the LORD , [that ] thou shalt call me (note :)That is , my husband , knowing that I am united to you by a covenant which could not be violated .(:note ) Ishi ; and shalt call me no more That is , my master : which name was applied to their idols . Baali . * For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth , and they shall no more be remembered by their (note :)No idolatry will come into their mouth at all , but they will fear me purely according to my word .(:note ) name . * And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the (note :)Meaning that he will so bless them that all creatures will favour them .(:note ) beasts of the field , and with the fowls of heaven , and [with ] the creeping things of the ground : and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth , and will make them to lie down safely . * And I wil marry thee vnto me for euer : yea , I will marry thee vnto me in righteousnes , and in iudgement , and in mercy and in compassion . * I will even betroth thee unto me in (note :)With a covenant that will never be broken .(:note ) faithfulness : and thou shalt know the LORD . * And it shall come to pass in that day , I will hear , saith the LORD , I will hear (note :)Then will the heaven desire rain for the earth , which will bring forth things for the use of man .(:note ) the heavens , and they shall hear the earth ; * And the earth shall heare the corne , &amp ; the wine , and the oyle , and they shall heare Izreel . * And I will sowe her vnto me in the earth , and I will haue mercie vpon her , that was not pitied , and I will say to them which were not my people , Thou art my people ; they shal say , Thou art my God .

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