22 Then you will say to Pharaoh: This is what Yahweh says: Israel is My firstborn son.(A) 23 I told you: Let My son go so that he may worship Me, but you refused to let him go. Now I will kill your firstborn son!”(B)

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22 Then say to Pharaoh, ‘This is what the Lord says: Israel is my firstborn son,(A) 23 and I told you, “Let my son go,(B) so he may worship(C) me.” But you refused to let him go; so I will kill your firstborn son.’”(D)

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His people have acted corruptly toward Him;
this is their defect[a]—they are not His children
but a devious and crooked generation.
Is this how you repay the Lord,
you foolish and senseless people?
Isn’t He your Father and Creator?
Didn’t He make you and sustain you?

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:5 Or Him; through their fault; Hb obscure

They are corrupt and not his children;
    to their shame they are a warped and crooked generation.(A)
Is this the way you repay(B) the Lord,
    you foolish(C) and unwise people?(D)
Is he not your Father,(E) your Creator,[a]
    who made you and formed you?(F)

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  1. Deuteronomy 32:6 Or Father, who bought you

18 You ignored the Rock who gave you birth;
you forgot the God who gave birth to you.

19 When the Lord saw this, He despised them,
provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.
20 He said: “I will hide My face from them;
I will see what will become of them,
for they are a perverse generation—
unfaithful children.

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18 You deserted the Rock, who fathered you;
    you forgot(A) the God who gave you birth.

19 The Lord saw this and rejected them(B)
    because he was angered by his sons and daughters.(C)
20 “I will hide my face(D) from them,” he said,
    “and see what their end will be;
for they are a perverse generation,(E)
    children who are unfaithful.(F)

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13 As a father has compassion on his children,
so the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.(A)

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13 As a father has compassion(A) on his children,
    so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him;

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True Repentance

19 I thought: How I long to make you My sons
and give you a desirable land,
the most beautiful inheritance(A) of all the nations.
I thought: You will call Me, my Father,
and never turn away from Me.

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19 “I myself said,

“‘How gladly would I treat you like my children
    and give you a pleasant land,(A)
    the most beautiful inheritance(B) of any nation.’
I thought you would call me ‘Father’(C)
    and not turn away from following me.

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10 [a]Yet the number of the Israelites
will be like the sand of the sea,(A)
which cannot be measured or counted.
And in the place where they were told:
You are not My people,
they will be called: Sons of the living God.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 1:10 Hs 2:1 in Hb

10 “Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted.(A) In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘children of the living God.’(B)

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15 He stayed there until Herod’s death, so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet might be fulfilled: Out of Egypt I called My Son.(A)[a]

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15 where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled(A) what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.”[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 2:15 Hosea 11:1