Hosea 2
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“Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’
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Contend with your mother!
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lest I strip her naked,
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Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy,
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For their mother has played the prostitute.
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Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns,
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She will follow after her lovers,
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For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil,
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Therefore I will take back my grain in its time,
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Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers,
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I will also cause all her celebrations to cease:
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I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,
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I will visit on her the days of the Baals,
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“Therefore behold, I will allure her,
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I will give her vineyards from there,
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It will be in that day,” says the LORD,
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For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth,
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In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field,
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I will betroth you to me forever.
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I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness;
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It will happen in that day, that I will respond,” says the LORD.
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and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil;
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I will sow her to me in the earth;