Hosea 2

The Unfaithful Wife

¹Say to your brother, “Ammi,”[#Hebrew “brothers”; #Ammi means “My people”]

and to your sister, “Ruhamah.”

²Plead with your mother, plead—

Let her put away her whoring from before her,

³Lest I strip her naked

I will make her like the desert

⁴And I will not have pity on her children,

she who conceived them has acted shamefully,

the ones who give me my bread, my water,

⁶Therefore, Look!

⁷Then she will pursue her lovers,[#Literally “the ones who love her”]

and she will say, “I will go

⁸But she did not know

and who gave her silver in abundance,

⁹Therefore I will take again

and I will take away my wool and my flax,

¹⁰And now I will uncover her nakedness

¹¹And I will put an end to all her mirth,

¹²and I will lay waste to her vines and her fig trees,[#Hebrew “vine”; #Hebrew “fig tree”]

I will make them a forest,

¹³I will punish her for the days of the Baals,[#Literally “To visit sins upon her;” see 1:4]

and she decked herself with her ornamental ring and jewelry,

¹⁴Therefore, Look! I am going to allure her

¹⁵From there I will give her

And there she will respond,

¹⁶And on that day—[#Literally, “And it will happen on that day”]

¹⁷I will remove the names

¹⁸I will make a covenant for them on that day,

¹⁹And I will take you as my wife forever;

²⁰I will take you as my wife in faithfulness,[#Literally “I will take you as a wife to me”]

²¹On that day I will answer, declares Yahweh,[#Literally “a declaration of Yahweh]

²²And the earth will answer

and they will answer Jezreel.