Hosea 2 (NET)

Hosea 2:1¹Then you will call your brother, “My People” (Ammi)! You will call your sister, “Pity” (Ruhamah)!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 2:101 Tim 1:13Ezek 37:27Hos 2:23Rom 11:30-312 Cor 4:1Exod 19:5-6Ezek 11:20Ezek 36:28Hos 1:9-11

Hosea 2:2²“Plead earnestly with your mother (for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband), so that she might put an end to her adulterous lifestyle, and turn away from her sexually immoral behavior.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 50:1Ezek 16:25Ezek 23:45Jer 3:13Jer 3:1Hos 1:2Hos 2:5Jer 19:3Jer 3:6-92 Cor 5:16

Hosea 2:3³Otherwise, I will strip her naked, and expose her like she was when she was born. I will turn her land into a wilderness and make her country a parched land, so that I might kill her with thirst.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 16:22Isa 32:13-14Amos 8:11-13Exod 17:3Ezek 19:13Jer 13:22Ezek 16:37-39Ezek 16:4-8Ezek 20:35-36Ezek 23:26-29

Hosea 2:4⁴I will have no pity on her children, because they are children conceived in adultery.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 8:18Ezek 9:10Hos 1:2Hos 1:6Jas 2:13Jer 13:14Jer 16:52 Kgs 9:22Isa 27:11Isa 57:3

Hosea 2:5⁵For their mother has committed adultery; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, “I will seek out my lovers; they are the ones who give me my bread and my water, my wool, my flax, my olive oil, and my wine.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 44:17-18Hos 2:8Hos 3:1Isa 1:21Hos 2:12-13Jer 3:1-9Dan 9:5-8Ezek 16:15-16Ezek 16:28-34Ezek 23:16-17

Hosea 2:6⁶“Therefore, I will soon fence her in with thorns; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 19:8Lam 3:7-9Job 3:23Luke 19:43

Hosea 2:7⁷Then she will pursue her lovers, but she will not catch them; she will seek them, but she will not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go back to my husband, because I was better off then than I am now.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 2:2Hos 5:13Jer 14:22Luke 15:17-20Deut 8:17-18Ezek 23:22Ezek 23:4Hos 13:62 Chr 28:20-22Dan 4:17

Hosea 2:8⁸“Yet until now she has refused to acknowledge that I was the one who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil; and that it was I who lavished on her the silver and gold— that they used in worshiping Baal!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 1:3Ezek 16:16-19Hos 13:2Hos 4:11Hos 8:4Rom 1:28Acts 17:23-25Dan 5:23Dan 5:3-4Exod 32:2-4

Hosea 2:9⁹Therefore, I will take back my grain during the harvest time and my new wine when it ripens; I will take away my wool and my flax that I had provided in order to clothe her.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 23:26Hag 1:6-11Hos 2:3Isa 17:10-11Mal 1:4Mal 3:18Dan 11:13Ezek 16:27Ezek 16:39Hag 2:16-17

Hosea 2:10¹⁰Soon I will expose her lewd nakedness in front of her lovers, and no one will be able to rescue her from me!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 23:29Luke 12:2-31 Cor 4:5Ezek 16:36-37Hos 13:7-8Hos 2:3Hos 5:13-14Isa 3:17Jer 13:22Jer 13:26

Hosea 2:11¹¹I will put an end to all her celebrations: her annual religious festivals, monthly new moon celebrations, and weekly Sabbath festivities— all her appointed festivals.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 1:13-14Amos 5:21Amos 8:5Jer 16:9Jer 7:34Rev 18:22-231 Kgs 12:32Amos 8:3Amos 8:9-10Ezek 26:13

Hosea 2:12¹²I will destroy her vines and fig trees, about which she said, ‘These are my wages for prostitution that my lovers gave to me!’ I will turn her cultivated vines and fig trees into an uncultivated thicket, so that wild animals will devour them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 5:5Isa 7:23Hos 13:8Hos 2:5Hos 9:1Isa 29:17Isa 32:13-15Jer 26:18Jer 8:13Mic 3:12

Hosea 2:13¹³I will punish her for the festival days when she burned incense to the Baal idols; she adorned herself with earrings and jewelry, and went after her lovers, but she forgot me!” says the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Judg 3:7Hos 13:6Hos 11:2Hos 13:1Jer 7:9Hos 4:6Hos 8:14Hos 9:7Hos 9:9-101 Kgs 16:31-32

Hosea 2:14¹⁴“However, in the future I will allure her; I will lead her back into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 40:1-2Ezek 20:35-36Isa 30:18Rev 12:6Gen 34:3John 6:44Rev 12:14Rom 11:26-27Amos 9:11-15Ezek 20:10

Hosea 2:15¹⁵From there I will give back her vineyards to her, and turn the ‘Valley of Trouble’ into an ‘Opportunity for Hope.’ There she will sing as she did when she was young, when she came up from the land of Egypt.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 28:26Jer 2:2Hos 11:1Josh 7:26Acts 14:27Amos 9:14Ezek 16:22Ezek 16:60Ezek 16:8Isa 65:21

Hosea 2:16¹⁶At that time,” declares the Lord, “you will call, ‘My husband’; you will never again call me, ‘My master.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 54:5Hos 2:7Jer 3:14Rev 19:72 Cor 11:2John 3:29Eph 5:25-27

Hosea 2:17¹⁷For I will remove the names of the Baal idols from your lips, so that you will never again utter their names!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 23:13Josh 23:7Ps 16:4Zech 13:2Jer 10:11

Hosea 2:18¹⁸“At that time I will make a covenant for them with the wild animals, the birds of the air, and the creatures that crawl on the ground. I will abolish the warrior’s bow and sword— that is, every weapon of warfare —from the land, and I will allow them to live securely.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 34:25Ezek 39:9-10Isa 11:6-9Ps 46:9Isa 2:4Isa 65:25Jer 23:6Job 5:23Mic 4:3-4Ps 91:1-13

Hosea 2:19¹⁹I will commit myself to you forever; I will commit myself to you in righteousness and justice, in steadfast love and tender compassion.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 11:2Rev 21:2Isa 54:14Isa 54:8-10Ezek 37:25-28John 3:29Ps 85:10Rev 19:7-9Rom 7:4Eph 5:23-27

Hosea 2:20²⁰I will commit myself to you in faithfulness; then you will acknowledge the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 17:31 John 4:61 John 5:20Jer 24:7Col 1:10Hos 2:19Ezek 38:23Jer 31:33-34Jer 9:24John 8:55

Hosea 2:21²¹“At that time, I will willingly respond,” declares the Lord. “I will respond to the sky, and the sky will respond to the ground;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Zech 8:12Isa 65:24Isa 55:10Matt 6:33Rom 8:321 Cor 3:21-23Zech 13:9

Hosea 2:22²²then the ground will respond to the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil; and they will respond to ‘God Plants’ (Jezreel)!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Joel 2:19Hos 1:11Hos 1:4Jer 31:12

Hosea 2:23²³Then I will plant her as my own in the land. I will have pity on ‘No Pity’ (Lo-Ruhamah). I will say to ‘Not My People’ (Lo-Ammi), ‘You are my people!’ And he will say, ‘You are my God!’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 9:25-261 Pet 2:9-10Zech 13:9Hos 1:9-10Rom 3:29Zech 2:11Rev 21:3-4Deut 26:17-19Zech 8:22-23Ps 22:27