Book 15 : NEVIIM - TREISAR - HOSEA - Chapter 002
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Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the
sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to
pass that, instead of that which was said unto them: 'Ye are not My people', it
shall be said unto them: 'Ye are the children of the living G-d.
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And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall
be gathered together, and they shall appoint themselves one head, and shall go
up out of the land; for great shall be the day of Jezreel
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Say ye unto your brethren: 'Ammi'; and to your sisters, 'Ruhamah.
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Plead with your mother, plead; for she is not My wife,
neither am I her husband; and let her put away her harlotries from her face, and
her adulteries from between her breasts
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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
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And I will not have compassion upon her children; for they
are children of harlotry
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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.
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Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and
I will make a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths
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And she shall run 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.
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For she did not know that it was I that gave her the corn,
and the wine, and the oil, and multiplied unto her silver and gold, which they
used for Baal
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Therefore will I take back My corn in the time thereof,
and My wine in the season thereof, and will snatch away My wool and My flax
given to cover her nakedness
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And now will I uncover her shame in the sight of her
lovers, and none shall deliver her out of My hand
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I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feasts, her
new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her appointed seasons
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And I will lay waste her vines and her fig-trees, whereof
she hath said: 'These are my hire that my lovers have given me'; and I will make
them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them
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And I will visit upon her the days of the Baalim, wherein
she offered unto them, and decked herself with her ear-rings and her jewels, and
went after her lovers, and forgot Me, saith HaShem
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Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into
the wilderness, and speak tenderly unto her
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And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the
valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she shall 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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And it shall be at that day, saith HaShem, that thou shalt
call Me Ishi, and shalt call Me no more Baali
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For I will take away the names of the Baalim out of her
mouth, and they shall no more be mentioned by their name
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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
land, and will make them to lie down safely
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And I will betroth thee unto Me for ever; yea, I will
betroth thee unto Me in righteousness, and in justice, and in lovingkindness,
and in compassion
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And I will betroth thee unto Me in faithfulness; and thou
shalt know HaShem
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And it shall come to pass in that day, I will respond,
saith HaShem, I will respond to the heavens, and they shall respond to the
earth
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And the earth shall respond to the corn, and the wine, and
the oil; and they shall respond to Jezreel
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And I will sow her unto Me in the land; and I will have
compassion upon her that had not obtained compassion; and I will say to them
that were not My people: 'Thou art My people'; and they shall say: 'Thou art my
G-d.
Book 15 : NEVIIM - TREISAR - HOSEA - Chapter 002
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