1 The people is called to repentance. 5 He showeth their idolatry and threateneth them except they repent.

Say unto your [a]brethren, Ammi, and to your sisters, Ruhamah,

Plead with your [b]mother: plead with her: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: but let her take away her fornications out of her sight, and her adulteries [c]from between her breasts.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:1 Seeing that I have promised you deliverance, it remaineth that you encourage one another to embrace the same, considering that ye are my people on whom I will have mercy.
  2. Hosea 2:2 God showeth that the fault was not in him, but in their Synagogue, and their idolatries, that he forsook them, Isa. 50:1.
  3. Hosea 2:2 Meaning, that their idolatry was so great, that they were not ashamed, but boasted of it, Ezek. 16:25.

[a]“Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’(A)

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“Rebuke your mother,(B) rebuke her,
    for she is not my wife,
    and I am not her husband.
Let her remove the adulterous(C) look from her face
    and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:1 In Hebrew texts 2:1-23 is numbered 2:3-25.