# Hosea 02 đ
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## đ Scripture Text (NET)
(The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005)
[[#Verse 01.]] Then you will call your brother, âMy Peopleâ (Ammi)! You will call your sister, âPityâ (Ruhamah)!
### Idolatrous Israel Will Be Punished Like a Prostitute
[[#Verse 02.]] âPlead earnestly with your mother
(for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband),
so that she might put an end to her adulterous lifestyle,
and turn away from her sexually immoral behavior.
[[#Verse 03.]]Â Otherwise, I will strip her naked,
and expose her like she was when she was born.
I will turn her land into a wilderness
and make her country a parched land,
so that I might kill her with thirst.
[[#Verse 04.]]Â I will have no pity on her children,
because they are children conceived in adultery.
[[#Verse 05.]]Â For their mother has committed adultery;
she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, âI will seek out my lovers;
they are the ones who give me my bread and my water,
my wool, my flax, my olive oil, and my wine.
### The Lordâs Discipline Will Bring Israel Back
[[#Verse 06.]] âTherefore, I will soon fence her in with thorns;
I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.
[[#Verse 07.]] Then she will pursue her lovers, but she will not catch them;
she will seek them, but she will not find them.
Then she will say,
âI will go back to my husband,
because I was better off then than I am now.â
### Agricultural Fertility Withdrawn from Israel
[[#Verse 08.]] âYet until now she has refused to acknowledge that I was the one
who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil;
and that it was I who lavished on her the silver and goldâ
that they used in worshiping Baal!
[[#Verse 09.]] Therefore, I will take back my grain during the harvest time
and my new wine when it ripens;
I will take away my wool and my flax
that I had provided in order to clothe her.
[[#Verse 10.]] Soon I will expose her lewd nakedness in front of her lovers,
and no one will be able to rescue her from me!
[[#Verse 11.]]Â I will put an end to all her celebrations:
her annual religious festivals,
monthly new moon celebrations,
and weekly Sabbath festivitiesâ
all her appointed festivals.
[[#Verse 12.]]Â I will destroy her vines and fig trees,
about which she said, âThese are my wages for prostitution
that my lovers gave to me!â
I will turn her cultivated vines and fig trees into an uncultivated thicket,
so that wild animals will devour them.
[[#Verse 13.]]Â I will punish her for the festival days
when she burned incense to the Baal idols;
she adorned herself with earrings and jewelry,
and went after her lovers,
but she forgot me!â says the Lord.
### Future Repentance and Restoration of Israel
[[#Verse 14.]]Â âHowever, in the future I will allure her;
I will lead her back into the wilderness,
and speak tenderly to her.
[[#Verse 15.]]Â From there I will give back her vineyards to her,
and turn the âValley of Troubleâ into an âOpportunity for Hope.â
There she will sing as she did when she was young,
when she came up from the land of Egypt.
[[#Verse 16.]]0 At that time,â declares the Lord,
âyou will call, âMy husbandâ;
you will never again call me, âMy master.â
[[#Verse 17.]] For I will remove the names of the Baal idols from your lips,
so that you will never again utter their names!
### New Covenant Relationship with Repentant Israel
[[#Verse 18.]] âAt that time I will make a covenant for them with the wild animals,
the birds of the air, and the creatures that crawl on the ground.
I will abolish the warriorâs bow and swordâ
that is, every weapon of warfareâfrom the land,
and I will allow them to live securely.
[[#Verse 19.]] I will commit myself to you forever;
I will commit myself to you in righteousness and justice,
in steadfast love and tender compassion.
[[#Verse 20.]]Â I will commit myself to you in faithfulness;
then you will acknowledge the Lord.
### Agricultural Fertility Restored to the Repentant Nation
[[#Verse 21.]] âAt that time, I will willingly respond,â declares the Lord.
âI will respond to the sky, and the sky will respond to the ground;
[[#Verse 22.]]Â then the ground will respond to the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil; and they will respond to âGod Plantsâ (Jezreel)!
[[#Verse 23.]] Then I will plant her as my own in the land.
I will have pity on âNo Pityâ (Lo-Ruhamah).
I will say to âNot My Peopleâ (Lo-Ammi), âYou are my people!â
And he will say, âYou are my God!ââ
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