MKJV - Hosea - 2

2:1  Say to your brothers, A People; and to your sisters, Mercy.

2:2  Contend! Contend with your mother, for she is not my wife, nor am I her husband. Let her therefore put away her fornications out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts,

2:3  lest I strip her naked and set her out as in the day that she was born; and lest I make her as the wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

2:4  And I will not have mercy on her sons, for they are the sons of adulteries.

2:5  For their mother has prostituted herself. She who conceived them has done shamefully. For she said, I will go after my lovers who give my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

2:6  Therefore behold, I will hedge your way with thorns, and wall up her wall, that she shall not find her paths.

2:7  And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them. She shall seek them, but shall not find them. Then she shall say, I will go and return to my first husband, for then it was better with me than now.

2:8  For she did not know that I gave her grain, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.

2:9  So I will return and take away My grain in its time, and my wine in its season, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.

2:10  And now I will uncover her shamefulness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.

2:11  I will also cause all her joy to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her appointed feasts.

2:12  And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, of which she has said, They 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.

2:13  And I will visit on her the days of the Baals, in which she burned incense to them, and she adorned herself with her nose-rings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers and forgot Me, says the LORD.

2:14  Therefore, behold, I will lure her and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably to her.

2:15  And I will give her vineyards to her 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.

2:16  And it shall be at that day, says the LORD, you shall call Me, My Husband, and shall no more call Me, My Baal.

2:17  For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no more be remembered by their name.

2:18  And in that day I will cut a covenant for them, with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, 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.

2:19  And I will betroth you to Me forever. Yea, I will betroth you to Me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving-kindness, and in mercies.

2:20  I will even betroth you to Me in faithfulness. And you shall know the LORD.

2:21  And it will be, in that day I will answer, says the LORD. I will answer the heavens, and they shall answer the earth,

2:22  and the earth shall hear the grain and the wine and the oil. And they shall hear Jezreel.

2:23  And I will sow her to Me in the earth. And I will have mercy on No-mercy. And I will say to Not-my-people, You are My people. And they shall say, My God.