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Hosea 2

23 aligned verses; 23 with wording or punctuation differences .

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" Say to your brothers, ' My people !' And to your sisters, ' My loved one !'
Say of your brothers, My people ,’ and of your sisters, My loved one .’
Contend with your mother ! Contend , for she is not my wife, Neither am I her husband ; And let her put away her prostitution from her face , And her adulteries from between her breasts ;
Rebuke 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 .
Lest I strip her naked , And make her bare as in the day that she was born, And make her like a wilderness, And set her like a dry land, And kill her with thirst.
Otherwise, 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.
Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; For they are children of unfaithfulness;
I will have no compassion on her children, because they are the children of adultery.
For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; For she said , ' I will go after my lovers, Who give me my bread and my water, My wool and my flax , My oil and my drink. '
For 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.
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns , And I will build a wall against her , That she can't find her way.
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns ; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.
She will follow after her lovers , But she won't overtake them; And she will seek them , But won't find them. Then she will say, ' I will go and return to my first husband ; For then was it better with me than now. '
She 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.
For she did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, And multiplied to her silver and gold , which they used for Baal.
For 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.
Therefore I will take back my grain in its time , And my new wine in its season , And will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.
Therefore 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.
Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, And no one will deliver her out of my hand .
And then I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of My hands .
I will also cause all her celebrations to cease : Her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies .
I will put an end to all her exultation : her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths— all her appointed feasts .
I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, About which she has said, 'These are my wages that my lovers have given me; And I will make them a forest , ' And the animals of the field shall eat them.
I 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.
I will visit on her the days of the Baals , To which she burned incense, When she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels , And went after her lovers , And forgot me, " says Yahweh .
I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them , when she decked herself with rings and jewelry , and went after her lovers . But Me she forgot , declares the LORD .
" Therefore, behold, I will allure her , And bring her into the wilderness, And speak tenderly to her.
Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness, and speak to her tenderly .
I will give her vineyards from there, And the valley of Achor for a door of hope ; And she will respond there, As in the days of her youth, And as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
There 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.
It will be in that day, " says Yahweh , "That you will call me ' my husband, ' And no longer call me ' my master. '
In that day, declares the LORD , you will call Me my Husband, and no longer call Me my Master.
For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, And they will no more be mentioned by their name .
For I will remove from her lips the names of the Baals ; no longer will their names be invoked .
In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field , And with the birds of the sky, And with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow , the sword , and the battle out of the land, And will make them lie down safely .
On 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 weapons of war in the land, and will make them lie down in safety .
I will betroth you to me forever . Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness , in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.
So I will betroth you to Me forever ; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in loving devotion and compassion.
I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness ; And you shall know Yahweh .
And I will betroth you in faithfulness , and you will know the LORD .
It will happen in that day , I will respond ," says Yahweh, I will respond to the heavens, And they will respond to the earth ;
“On that day I will respond —” declares the LORD— I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth .
And the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine , and the oil ; And they will respond to Jezreel.
And the earth will respond to the grain, to the new wine and oil , and they will respond to Jezreel.
I will sow her to me in the earth; And I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; And I will tell those who were not my people, ' You are my people ;' And they will say, ' My God !'"
And 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 .’”

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