Hosea:2

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* Say ye unto your brethren , Ammi ; and to your sisters , Ruhamah . * Contend with your mother , contend : for she [is ] not my wife , neither [am ] I her husband : let her therefore remove her whoredoms from her face and her adulteries from between her breasts ; * lest I strip her naked and set her as in the day that she was born and make her as a wilderness and set her like a dry land and slay her with thirst . * Neither will I have mercy upon her sons , for they [are ] the sons of whoredoms . * For their mother has played the harlot ; she that conceived them has been shamed ; for she said , I will go after my lovers that give [me ] my bread and my water , my wool and my flax , my oil and my drink . * Therefore , behold , I will hedge up 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 , I will go and return to my first husband , for then [it was ] better with me than now . * For she did not recognize that I gave her the wheat and the wine and the oil and multiplied unto them the silver and the gold , [with which ] they made Baal . * Therefore I will return and take away my wheat in the time thereof and my wine in the season thereof and will recover my wool and my flax that [I ]had given to cover her nakedness . * And now [I ] will uncover her folly in the sight of her lovers , and no one shall deliver her out of my hand . * I will also cause all her mirth to cease , her feast , her new moon , and her sabbath , and all her festivities . * And I will cause her vine and her fig tree to be cut down , of which she has said , These [are ] my wages that my lovers have given me ; and I will reduce them to a thicket , and the beasts of the field shall eat them . * And I will visit upon her the times of the Baals , unto whom she burned incense , and she adorned herself with her earrings and her jewels , and she went after her lovers , oblivious of me , saith the LORD . * Therefore , behold , I will induce her and bring her into the wilderness and speak unto her heart . * And I will give her vineyards from there , and the valley of Achor for a door of hope ; and she shall 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 in that time , saith the LORD , [that ] thou shalt call me My Husband , and shalt no longer call me Baali . * For I will take away the names of Baals out of her mouth , and they shall no longer be remembered by their name . * And in that time I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of the heaven and [with ] the serpents of the earth ; and I will break [the ] bow and [the ] sword and [the ] battle of the earth and will cause them to sleep safely . * And I will betroth thee unto me for ever ; yea , I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness and in judgment and in mercy . * I will even betroth thee unto me in faith : and thou shalt know the LORD . * And it shall come to pass in that day , I will respond , saith the LORD , I will respond to the heavens , and they shall respond to the earth ; * and the earth shall respond to the wheat and the wine and the oil ; and they shall respond to Jezreel . * And I will sow her unto me in the earth ; and I will have mercy upon Loruhamah , and I will say to Loammi , Thou [art ] my people ; and he shall say , [Thou art ] my God .:

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