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1:1The word of Jehovah which came to Hosea the son of Beeri in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash the king of Israel.
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1:2At the beginning of Jehovah's speaking to Hosea, Jehovah said to Hosea, Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotries / And children of harlotries, / For the land is entirely given over to harlotry, / And thus departs from Jehovah.
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1:3So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim. And she conceived and bore him a son.
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1:4And Jehovah said to him, Call his name Jezreel, / For yet a little while / And I will avenge the bloodshed of Jezreel / Upon the house of Jehu / And will bring an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
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1:5And in that day / I will break the bow of Israel / In the valley of Jezreel.
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1:6And she conceived again and bore a daughter. And He said to him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah, / For I will no longer have compassion / On the house of Israel, / That I should forgive them at all.
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1:7But on the house of Judah I will have compassion and will save them by Jehovah their God, and I will not save them by bow or by sword or by battle, by horses or by horsemen.
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1:8When she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived and bore a son.
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1:9And He said, Call his name Lo-ammi, / For you are not My people, / And I will not belong to you.
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1:10But the number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, / Which cannot be measured or numbered; / And in the place where it will be said to them, You are not My people, / It will be said to them, You are the sons of the living God.
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1:11And the children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, / And they will appoint for themselves one head, and they will go up from the land, / For great will be the day of Jezreel.
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2:1Say to your brothers, Ammi, / And to your sisters, Ruhamah.
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2:2Contend with your mother; contend. / For she is not my wife, / And I am not her husband. / And let her turn away her harlotries from her face, / And her adulteries from between her breasts,
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2:3Lest I strip her naked / And set her out as in the day she was born / And make her a wilderness / And make her a dry land / And slay her with thirst.
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2:4And on her children I will not have compassion, / For they are the children of harlotries.
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2:5For their mother has gone about as a harlot; / She who conceived them has acted shamefully; / For she has 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.
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2:6Therefore I will now hedge up / Her way with thorns; / And I will build up a wall against her, / So that she will not find her paths.
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2:7And she will pursue her lovers / But will not overtake them; / And she will seek them but not find them; / And she will say, I will go / And return to my first husband, / For it was better for me then than now.
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2:8For she did not know / That it was I who gave her / The grain and the new wine and the fresh oil, / And who multiplied to her silver / And gold, which they used for Baal.
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2:9Therefore I will take back / My grain in its time / And My new wine in its appointed season, / And I will snatch away My wool and My flax, / Which were to cover her nakedness.
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2:10And now I will uncover her lewdness / In the sight of her lovers, / And no one will deliver her from My hand.
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2:11And I will bring all her mirth to an end, / Her feasts, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, / And all her appointed assemblies.
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2:12And I will desolate her vine and her fig tree, / Of which she said, / These are my payments / That my lovers have given me; / And I will make them a forest, / And the beasts of the field will devour them.
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2:13And I will visit the days of the Baals upon her, / In which she burned incense to them / And adorned herself with her nose rings and her jewels / And went after her lovers / And forgot Me, / Declares Jehovah.
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2:14Therefore I am now luring her, / And I will bring her into the wilderness / And will speak to her heart.
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2:15And I will give her her vineyards from there / And the valley of Achor as 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.
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2:16And in that day, declares Jehovah, / You will call Me My Husband / And will no longer call Me Baali.
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2:17For I will take away the names of the Baals from her mouth, / And they will no longer be remembered by their name.
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2:18And I will make a covenant for them / In that day / With the beasts of the field / And with the birds of heaven / And the creeping things of the earth; / And bow and sword and battle / I will break from the land, / And I will cause them to lie down in safety.
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2:19And I will betroth you to Myself forever; / Indeed I will betroth you to Myself / In righteousness and justice / And in lovingkindness and compassions;
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2:20Indeed I will betroth you to Myself in faithfulness, / And you will know Jehovah.
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2:21And in that day / I will answer, declares Jehovah; / I will answer the heavens, / And they will answer the earth,
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2:22And the earth will answer the grain / And the new wine and the fresh oil, / And they will answer Jezreel.
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2:23And I will sow her for Myself in the land; / And I will have compassion on Lo-ruhamah, / And I will say to Lo-ammi, You are My people; / And they will say, My God.
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3:1Then Jehovah said to me, Go again, love a woman who is loved by her companion yet who is an adulteress, even as Jehovah has loved the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.
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3:2So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer of barley and a half-homer of barley.
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3:3And I said to her, You will abide for me for many days; you shall not go about as a harlot nor be another man's; and I will be the same toward you.
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3:4For the children of Israel will abide for many days without king and without prince and without sacrifice and without pillar and without ephod and teraphim.
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3:5Afterward the children of Israel will return and seek Jehovah their God and David their King, and they will come with fear to Jehovah and to His goodness in the last days.
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