2:1 Say to your brother, My people, and to
your sister, Pitied.
2:2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, and I am not her
husband: and I will remove her fornication out of my presence, and her
adultery from between her breasts:
2:3 that I may strip her naked, and make her again as she was at the day of
her birth: and I will make her desolate, and make her as a dry land, and
will kill her with thirst.
2:4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are children of
fornication.
2:5 And their mother went a-whoring: she that bore them disgraced [them]:
for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water,
and my garments, and my linen clothes, my oil and my necessaries.
2:6 Therefore, behold, I hedge up her way with thorns, and I will stop the
ways, and she shall not find her path.
2:7 And she shall follow after her lovers, and shall not overtake them; and
she shall seek them, but shall not find them: and she shall say, I will go,
and return to my former husband; for it was better with me than now.
2:8 And she knew not that I gave her her corn, and wine, and oil, and
multiplied silver to her: but she made silver and gold [images] for Baal.
2:9 Therefore I will return, and take away my corn in its season, and my
wine in its time; and I will take away my raiment and my linen clothes, so
that she shall not cover her nakedness.
2:10 And now I will expose her uncleanness before her lovers, and no one
shall by any means deliver her out of my hand.
2:11 And I will take away all her gladness, her feasts, and her festivals at
the new moon, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
2:12 And I will utterly destroy her vines, and her fig-trees, all things of
which she said, These are my hire which my lovers have given me: and I will
make them a testimony, and the wild beasts of the field, and the birds of
the sky, and the reptiles of the earth shall devour them.
2:13 And I will recompense on her the days of Baalim, wherein she sacrificed
to them, and put on her ear-rings, and her necklaces, and went after her
lovers, and forgot me, saith Yehovah.
2:14 Therefore, behold, I [will] cause her to err, and will make her as
desolate, and will speak comfortably to her.
2:15 And I will giver her possessions from thence, and the valley of Achor
to open her understanding: and she shall be afflicted there according to the
days of her infancy, and according to the days of her coming up out of the
land of Egypt.
2:16 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Yehovah, [that] she shall
call me, My husband, and shall no longer call me Baalim.
2:17 And I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and their
names shall be remembered no more at all.
2:18 And I will make for them in that day a covenant with the wild beasts of
the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the reptiles of the
earth: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle from off the
earth, and will cause thee to dwell safely.
2:19 And I will betroth thee to myself for ever; yea, I will betroth thee to
myself in righteousness, and in judgment, and in mercy, and in tender
compassions;
2:20 and I will betroth thee to myself in faithfulness: and thou shalt know
Yehovah.
2:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Yehovah, I will hearken
to the heaven, and it shall hearken to the earth;
2:22 and the earth shall hearken to the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and
they shall hearken to Jezrael.
2:23 And I will sow her to me on the earth; and will love her that was not
loved, and will say to that which was not my people, Thou art my people; and
they shall say, Thou art Yehovah my Elohim. |
2:1 Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to
your sisters, Ruhamah.
2:2 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;
2:3 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.
2:4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of
whoredoms.
2:5 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.
2:6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall,
that she shall not find her paths.
2:7 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.
2:8 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.
2:9 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.
2:10 And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and
none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
2:11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new
moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
2:12 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.
2:13 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 Yehovah.
2:14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the
wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
2:15 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.
2:16 And it shall be at that day, saith Yehovah, that thou shalt call me
Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.
2:17 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they
shall no more be remembered by their name.
2:18 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.
2:19 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.
2:20 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know
Yehovah.
2:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith Yehovah, I
will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;
2:22 And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they
shall hear Jezreel.
2:23 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 Elohim. |