何西阿書 第 2 章

And the number of the sons of Israel was as the sand of the sea, which shall not be measured nor numbered. And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they shall be called sons of the living God.

And the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint for themselves one ruler, and they shall come up out of the land, for great is the day of Iezrael.

Say to your brother, My-people, and to your sister, Pitied.

Plead with your mother, plead, for she is not my wife and I am not her husband; and I will remove her whoredom from before my face, and her adultery from between her breasts,

so that I may strip her naked and restore her as on the day of her birth; and I will make her like a wilderness and set her like a waterless land, and I will kill her with thirst.

And her children I will not pity, because they are children of whoredom.

For their mother played the whore; she who bore them acted shamefully. For she said: I will follow after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water and my garments and my linens and my oil and everything that is due me.

Therefore, behold, I am hedging up her way with thorns, and I will wall up her ways, and she shall not find her path.

And she will pursue her lovers and not overtake them, and she will seek them and not find them. And she will say: I will go and return to my former husband, for it was better for me then than now.

And she did not know that it was I who gave her the grain and the wine and the oil, and I multiplied silver for her; but she made things of silver and of gold for Baal.

Therefore I will turn back and take away my grain in its season and my wine in its time, and I will take away my garments and my linens, so that they no longer cover her shame.

And now I will uncover her uncleanness before her lovers, and no one at all shall snatch her out of my hand.

And I will turn back all her mirth, her feasts and her new moons and her sabbaths and all her festal gatherings.

And I will destroy her vine and her fig trees, of which she said, These are my wages that my lovers gave me; and I will make them into a testimony, and the wild animals of the field and the birds of heaven and the creeping things of the earth shall devour them.

And I will punish her for the days of the Baalim, in which she sacrificed to them and put on her earrings and her necklaces and went after her lovers, but forgot me, says the Lord.

Therefore, behold, I am leading her astray, and I will set her in a wilderness, and I will speak to her heart.

And I will give her her possessions from there, and the valley of Achor, to open up her understanding; and she shall be humbled there, as in the days of her infancy and as in the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.

And it shall be in that day, says the Lord, she shall call me, My husband, and she shall no longer call me Baalim.

And I will remove the names of the Baalim from her mouth, and their names shall no longer be remembered.

And in that day I will make for them a covenant with the wild animals of the field and with the birds of heaven and with the creeping things of the earth; and bow and sword and war I will break from the land, and I will settle you in hope.

And I will betroth you to myself forever; and I will betroth you to myself in righteousness and in judgment and in mercy and in compassions.

And I will betroth you to myself in faithfulness, and you shall know the Lord.

And it shall be in that day, says the Lord, I will answer the heaven, and the heaven shall answer the earth;

and the earth shall answer the grain and the wine and the oil, and these shall answer Iezrael.

And I will sow her for myself on the earth, and I will pity Not-pitied, and I will say to Not-my-people, You are my people; and he will say, You are the Lord my God.