Hosea 2 — MSB
2Verse 1“Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’Verse 2Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.Verse 3Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.Verse 4I will have no compassion on her children, because they are the children of adultery.Verse 5For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’Verse 6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.Verse 7She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will return to my first husband, for then I was better off than now.’Verse 8For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, who lavished on her silver and gold—which they crafted for Baal.Verse 9Therefore I will take back My grain in its time and My new wine in its season; I will take away My wool and linen, which were given to cover her nakedness.Verse 10And then I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of My hands.Verse 11I will put an end to all her exultation: her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—all her appointed feasts.Verse 12I will destroy her vines and fig trees, which she thinks are the wages paid by her lovers. So I will make them into a thicket, and the beasts of the field will devour them.Verse 13I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she adorned herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.Verse 14“Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness, and speak to her tenderly.Verse 15There I will give back her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.Verse 16In that day,” declares the LORD, “you will call Me ‘my Husband,’ and no longer call Me ‘my Master.’Verse 17For I will remove from her lips the names of the Baals; no longer will their names be invoked.Verse 18On that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that crawl on the ground. And I will abolish bow and sword and battle in the land, and will make them lie down in safety.Verse 19So I will betroth you to Me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in loving devotion and compassion.Verse 20And I will betroth you in faithfulness, and you will know the LORD.”Verse 21“On that day I will respond—” declares the LORD—“I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth.Verse 22And the earth will respond to the grain, to the new wine and oil, and they will respond to Jezreel.Verse 23And I will sow her as My own in the land, and I will have compassion on ‘No Compassion.’ I will say to those called ‘Not My People,’ ‘You are My people,’ and they will say, ‘You are my God.’”