kjv Hosea:2:2-23 SEEK
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Plead with your 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 from between her breasts ;
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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 .
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And I will not have mercy upon her children ;
for they be the children of whoredoms .
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For their mother hath played the harlot :
she that conceived them hath done shamefully :
for she said ,
I will go after my lovers ,
that give me my bread and my water ,
my wool and my flax ,
mine oil and my drink .
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Therefore ,
behold ,
I will hedge up thy way with thorns ,
and make a wall ,
that she shall not find her paths .
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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 was it better with me than now .
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For she did not know that I gave her corn ,
and wine ,
and oil ,
and multiplied her silver and gold ,
which they prepared for Baal .
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Therefore will I return ,
and take away 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 .
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And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers ,
and none shall deliver her out of mine hand .
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I will also cause all her mirth to cease ,
her feast days ,
her new moons ,
and her sabbaths ,
and all her solemn feasts .
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And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees ,
whereof she hath said ,
These are my rewards that my lovers have given me :
and I will make them a forest ,
and the beasts of the field shall eat them .
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And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim ,
wherein she burned incense to them ,
and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels ,
and she went after her lovers ,
and forgat me ,
saith the LORD .
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Therefore ,
behold ,
I will allure her ,
and bring her into the wilderness ,
and speak comfortably unto her .
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And I will give her her vineyards from thence ,
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 .
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And it shall be at that day ,
saith the LORD ,
that thou shalt call me Ishi ;
and shalt call me no more Baali .
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For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth ,
and they shall no more be remembered by their name .
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And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the 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 .
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And I will betroth thee unto me for ever ;
yea ,
I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness ,
and in judgment ,
and in lovingkindness ,
and in mercies .
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I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness :
and thou shalt know the LORD .
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And it shall come to pass in that day ,
I will hear ,
saith the LORD ,
I will hear the heavens ,
and they shall hear the earth ;
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And the earth shall hear the corn ,
and the wine ,
and the oil ;
and they shall hear Jezreel .
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And I will sow her unto me in the earth ;
and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy ;
and I will say to them which were not my people ,
Thou art my people ;
and they shall say ,
Thou art my God .