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# Hosea 2 (New King James Version)
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The Lord's Love for His Unfaithful People
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##### Chapter 2
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###### 1 Say to your brethren, 'My people,'
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And to your sisters, 'Mercy _is shown._'God's Unfaithful People
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###### 2 "Bring charges against your mother, bring charges;
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For she _is_ not My wife, nor _am_ I her Husband!
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Let her put away her harlotries from her sight,
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And her adulteries from between her breasts;
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###### 3 Lest I strip her naked
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And expose her, as in the day she was born,
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And make her like a wilderness,
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And set her like a dry land,
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And slay her with thirst.
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###### 4 "I will not have mercy on her children,
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For they _are_ the children of harlotry.
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###### 5 For their mother has played the harlot;
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She who conceived them has behaved shamefully.
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For she said, 'I will go after my lovers,
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Who give _me_ my bread and my water,
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My wool and my linen,
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My oil and my drink.'
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###### 6 "Therefore, behold,
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I will hedge up your way with thorns,
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And wall her in,
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So that she cannot find her paths.
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###### 7 She will chase her lovers,
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But not overtake them;
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Yes, she will seek them, but not find _them._
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Then she will say,
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'I will go and return to my first husband,
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For then _it was_ better for me than now.'
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###### 8 For she did not know
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That I gave her grain, new wine, and oil,
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And multiplied her silver and gold--
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_Which_ they prepared for Baal.
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###### 9 "Therefore I will return and take away
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My grain in its time
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And My new wine in its season,
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And will take back My wool and My linen,
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_Given_ to cover her nakedness.
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###### 10 Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers,
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And no one shall deliver her from My hand.
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###### 11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease,
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Her feast days,
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Her New Moons,
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Her Sabbaths--
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All her appointed feasts.
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###### 12 "And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees,
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Of which she has said,
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'These _are_ my wages that my lovers have given me.'
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So I will make them a forest,
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And the beasts of the field shall eat them.
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###### 13 I will punish her
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For the days of the Baals to which she burned incense.
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She decked herself with her earrings and jewelry,
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And went after her lovers;
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But Me she forgot," says the Lord.God's Mercy on His People
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###### 14 "Therefore, behold, I will allure her,
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Will bring her into the wilderness,
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And speak comfort to her.
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###### 15 I will give her her vineyards from there,
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And the Valley of Achor as a door of hope;
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She shall sing there,
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As in the days of her youth,
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As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.
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###### 16 "And it shall be, in that day,"
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Says the Lord,
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"_That_ you will call Me 'My Husband,'
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And no longer call Me 'My Master,'
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###### 17 For I will take from her mouth the names of the Baals,
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And they shall be remembered by their name no more.
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###### 18 In that day I will make a covenant for them
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With the beasts of the field,
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With the birds of the air,
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And _with_ the creeping things of the ground.
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Bow and sword of battle I will shatter from the earth,
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To make them lie down safely.
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###### 19 "I will betroth you to Me forever;
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Yes, I will betroth you to Me
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In righteousness and justice,
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In lovingkindness and mercy;
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###### 20 I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness,
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And you shall know the Lord.
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###### 21 "It shall come to pass in that day
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_That_ I will answer," says the Lord;
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"I will answer the heavens,
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And they shall answer the earth.
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###### 22 The earth shall answer
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With grain,
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With new wine,
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And with oil;
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They shall answer Jezreel.
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###### 23 Then I will sow her for Myself in the earth,
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And I will have mercy on _her who had_ not obtained mercy;
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Then I will say to _those who were_ not My people,
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'You _are_ My people!'
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And they shall say, '_You are_ my God!' "
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