Hosea 2

¹“Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’2:1 ‘Ammi’ in Hebrew

²Contend with your mother!

³lest I strip her naked,

⁴Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy,

⁵For their mother has played the prostitute.

⁶Therefore behold,2:6 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. I will hedge up your way with thorns,

⁷She will follow after her lovers,

⁸For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil,

⁹Therefore I will take back my grain in its time,

¹⁰Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers,

¹¹I will also cause all her celebrations to cease:

¹²I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,

¹³I will visit on her the days of the Baals,

¹⁴“Therefore behold, I will allure her,

¹⁵I will give her vineyards from there,

¹⁶It will be in that day,” says Yahweh,

¹⁷For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth,

¹⁸In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field,

¹⁹I will betroth you to me forever.

²⁰I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness;

²¹It will happen in that day, that I will respond,” says Yahweh.

²²and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil;

²³I will sow her to me in the earth;