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    Hosea · 23 verses

    Hosea 2

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    The path is first barricaded with thorns and a wall, and then—rather splendidly—the abandoned woman is lured into the wilderness for tender speech.

    A wife behind the hedgevv. 1–13

    The chapter opens by changing the family vocabulary: brothers become “My people,” sisters “My loved one.” Then the household is described as a marriage gone sour, with the mother pursuing lovers for bread, water, wool, linen, oil, and drink. Her way is blocked, her lovers evade her, and the provisions she credited to them are reclaimed. Even the feasts, vines, fig trees, jewellery, and incense are swept into the indictment. The oddity is that the husband is both prosecutor and provider: she forgets who gave the grain, wine, oil, silver, and gold, while turning the gold into something for Baal.

    The wilderness courtshipvv. 14–23

    At the great turn, the same voice that hedged the path now says, “I will allure her,” and leads her to the wilderness to speak tenderly. Vineyards return; the Valley of Achor becomes a gateway of hope; “my Master” is exchanged for “my Husband,” and the names of the Baals vanish from her lips. The promised betrothal is made out of righteousness, justice, loving devotion, compassion, and faithfulness. Then the chapter grows gloriously planetary: the heavens answer the earth, the earth answers the crops, and the crops answer Jezreel. At the end, rejected names are reversed—No Compassion receives compassion, and Not My People are called My people.

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    1. Hos 2:1“Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’

    2. Hos 2:2Rebuke 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.

    3. Hos 2:3Otherwise, 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.

    4. Hos 2:4I will have no compassion on her children, because they are the children of adultery.

    5. Hos 2:5For 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.’

    6. Hos 2:6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.

    7. Hos 2:7She 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.’

    8. Hos 2:8For 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.

    9. Hos 2:9Therefore 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.

    10. Hos 2:10And then I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of My hands.

    11. Hos 2:11I will put an end to all her exultation: her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—all her appointed feasts.

    12. Hos 2:12I 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.

    13. Hos 2:13I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she adorned herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.

    14. Hos 2:14“Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness, and speak to her tenderly.

    15. Hos 2:15There 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.

    16. Hos 2:16In that day,” declares the LORD, “you will call Me ‘my Husband,’ and no longer call Me ‘my Master.’

    17. Hos 2:17For I will remove from her lips the names of the Baals; no longer will their names be invoked.

    18. Hos 2:18On 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 battle in the land, and will make them lie down in safety.

    19. Hos 2:19So I will betroth you to Me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in loving devotion and compassion.

    20. Hos 2:20And I will betroth you in faithfulness, and you will know the LORD.”

    21. Hos 2:21“On that day I will respond—” declares the LORD—“I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth.

    22. Hos 2:22And the earth will respond to the grain, to the new wine and oil, and they will respond to Jezreel.

    23. Hos 2:23And 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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    Where this is echoed

    Readers' own connections, from OpenBible's crowd-voted cross-references — agreement about relevance, and not scholarly confidence. 416 passages were voted onto 23 verses of this chapter; the 16 shown lead on votes, and each is listed at the verse it was voted onto most strongly.

    • 23Romans 9:25–26As He says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘My People’ who are not My people, and I will call her ‘My Beloved’ who is not My beloved,”
    • 231 Peter 2:9–10But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
    • 23Zechariah 13:9This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’”
    • 23Hosea 1:9–10And the LORD said, “Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not your God.
    • 23Romans 3:29Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,
    • 23Revelation 21:3–4And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God.
    • 23Zechariah 8:22–23And many peoples and strong nations will come to seek the LORD of Hosts in Jerusalem and to plead before the LORD.”
    • 23Deuteronomy 26:17–19Today you have proclaimed that the LORD is your God and that you will walk in His ways, keep His statutes and commandments and ordinances, and listen to His voice.
    • 192 Corinthians 11:2I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
    • 19Revelation 21:2I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
    • 14Isaiah 40:1–2“Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.
    • 15Ezekiel 28:26And there they will dwell securely, build houses, and plant vineyards. They will dwell securely when I execute judgments against all those around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God.’”
    • 15Jeremiah 2:2“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
    • 18Ezekiel 34:25I will make with them a covenant of peace and rid the land of wild animals, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the forest.
    • 19Isaiah 54:14In righteousness you will be established, far from oppression, for you will have no fear. Terror will be far removed, for it will not come near you.
    • 11Isaiah 1:13–14Bring your worthless offerings no more; your incense is detestable to Me. New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations—I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly.

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