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Text -- Hosea 2:4-23 (NET)
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2:4 I will have no pity on her children , because they are children conceived in adultery .
2:5 For 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 .
The Lord’s Discipline Will Bring Israel Back
2:6 Therefore , I will soon fence her in with thorns ; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way .
2:7 Then 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 .”
Agricultural Fertility Withdrawn from Israel
2:8 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 – which they used in worshiping Baal !
2:9 Therefore , 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 which I had provided in order to clothe her .
2:10 Soon I will expose her lewd nakedness in front of her lovers , and no one will be able to rescue her from me!
2:11 I will put an end to all her celebration: her annual religious festivals , monthly new moon celebrations , and weekly Sabbath festivities– all her appointed festivals .
2:12 I 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.
2:13 “I 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 .
Future Repentance and Restoration of Israel
2:14 However , in the future I will allure her; I will lead her back into the wilderness , and speak tenderly to her.
2:15 From 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 .
2:16 “At that time ,” declares the Lord , “you will call , ‘My husband ’; you will never again call me, ‘My master .’
2:17 For I will remove the names of the Baal idols from your lips , so that you will never again utter their names !”
New Covenant Relationship with Repentant Israel
2:18 “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 .”
2:19 I will commit myself to you forever ; I will commit myself to you in righteousness and justice , in steadfast love and tender compassion .
2:20 I will commit myself to you in faithfulness ; then you will acknowledge the Lord .”
Agricultural Fertility Restored to the Repentant Nation
2:21 “At that time , I will willingly respond ,” declares the Lord . “I will respond to the sky , and the sky will respond to the ground ;
2:22 then the ground will respond to the grain , the new wine , and the olive oil ; and they will respond to ‘God Plants’ (Jezreel )!
2:23 Then 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 !’”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Baal |
Condescension of God |
Backsliders |
Israel |
Church |
God |
Marriage |
HOSEA |
COVENANT, THE NEW |
Flax |
Wicked |
GOD, 2 |
Lovers |
HEAVENS, NEW (AND EARTH, NEW) |
Afflictions and Adversities |
BETROTH |
Oil |
Husband |
WOOL |
TRADE |
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NET Notes -> Hos 2:4; Hos 2:4; Hos 2:4; Hos 2:4; Hos 2:5; Hos 2:5; Hos 2:5; Hos 2:6; Hos 2:6; Hos 2:6; Hos 2:6; Hos 2:6; Hos 2:7; Hos 2:7; Hos 2:7; Hos 2:7; Hos 2:7; Hos 2:8; Hos 2:8; Hos 2:8; Hos 2:8; Hos 2:8; Hos 2:8; Hos 2:8; Hos 2:9; Hos 2:9; Hos 2:9; Hos 2:9; Hos 2:9; Hos 2:9; Hos 2:10; Hos 2:10; Hos 2:10; Hos 2:12; Hos 2:12; Hos 2:12; Hos 2:13; Hos 2:13; Hos 2:13; Hos 2:14; Hos 2:14; Hos 2:15; Hos 2:15; Hos 2:15; Hos 2:15; Hos 2:16; Hos 2:16; Hos 2:16; Hos 2:16; Hos 2:16; Hos 2:17; Hos 2:17; Hos 2:17; Hos 2:17; Hos 2:18; Hos 2:18; Hos 2:18; Hos 2:18; Hos 2:19; Hos 2:19; Hos 2:20; Hos 2:20; Hos 2:20; Hos 2:21; Hos 2:21; Hos 2:21; Hos 2:22; Hos 2:23; Hos 2:23; Hos 2:23
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NET Notes: Hos 2:5 Heb “my drinks.” Many English versions use the singular “drink” here, but cf. NCV, TEV, CEV “wine.”
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NET Notes: Hos 2:9 This announcement of judgment is extremely ironic and forcefully communicates poetic justice: The punishment will fit the crime. The Israelites were l...
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NET Notes: Hos 2:12 Heb “the beasts of the field” (so KJV, NASB); the same expression also occurs in v. 18).
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NET Notes: Hos 2:13 The accusative direct object pronoun וְאֹתִי (vé’oti, “me”) is emphatic in the word o...
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NET Notes: Hos 2:14 Following the future-time referent participle (מְפַתֶּיהָ, méfatteha) there is a stri...
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NET Notes: Hos 2:18 Heb “and I will cause them to lie down in safety.” The causative nuance (“will make them”) is retained in several English vers...
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NET Notes: Hos 2:19 The preposition בְּ (bet), which is repeated throughout 2:19-20 [21-22], denotes price paid (BDB 90 s.v. בְּ III.3...
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NET Notes: Hos 2:21 Heb “and they.” In the Hebrew text the plural pronoun is used because it refers back to the term translated “sky,” which is a ...
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