CHAP. II.
Israel is justly punished for
leaving God. The abundance
of grace in the church
of Christ.
1 noteSay ye to your brethren:
You are my
people: and to your sister:
Thou hast obtained mercy.
2 Judge note your mother,
judge her: because she is not
my wife, and I am not her
husband. Let her put away
her fornications from her
face, and her adulteries
from between her breasts.
3 Lest I strip her naked,
and set her as in the day that
she was born: and I will
make her as a wilderness,
and will set her as a land
that none can pass through,
and will kill her with
drought.
4 And I will not have
mercy on her children: for
they are the children of fornications.
5 For their mother hath
committed fornication, she
that conceived them is covered
with shame: for she
said: I will go after my lovers,
that give me my bread,
and my water, my wool, and
my flax, my oil, and my
drink.
6 Wherefore behold I
will hedge up thy way with
thorns, and I will stop it up
with a wall, and she shall
not find her paths.
7 And she shall follow
after her lovers, and shall
not overtake them: and she
shall seek them, and shall
not find, and she shall say:
I will go, and return to my
first husband: because it was
better with me then, than
now.
8 And she did not know
that I gave her corn, and
wine, and oil, and multiplied
her silver, and gold,
which they have used in the
service of Baal.
9 Therefore will I return,
and take away my corn in
its season, and my wine in
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its season, and I will set at
liberty my wool, and my
flax, which covered her disgrace.
10 And now I will lay
open her folly in the eyes of
her lovers: and no man shall
deliver her out of my hand:
11 And I will cause all
her mirth to cease, her solemnities,
her new-moons,
her sabbaths, and all her
festival times.
12 And I will destroy her
vines, and her fig-trees, of
which she said: These are
my rewards, which my lovers
have given me: and I
will make her as a forest, and
the beasts of the field shall
devour her.
13 And I will visit upon
her the days of Baalim, to
whom she burnt incense, and
decked herself out with her
ear-rings, and with her
jewels, and went after her
lovers, and forgot me, saith
the Lord.
14 Therefore, behold note
I will allure her, and will
lead her into the wilderness:
and I will speak to her heart.
15 And I will give her
vine-dressers out of the same
place, and the valley of
Achor for an opening of
hope: and she shall sing there
according to the days of her
youth, and according to the
days of her coming up out
of the land of Egypt.
16 And it shall be in that
day, saith the Lord: That
she shall call me: note My
husband, and she shall call
me no more Baali.
17 And I will take away
the names of note Baalim out
of her mouth, and she shall
no more remember their
name.
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18 And in that day I will
make a covenant with them,
with the beasts of the field,
and with the fowls of the air,
and with the creeping things
of the earth: and I will destroy
the bow, and the sword,
and war out of the land: and
I will make them sleep secure.
19 And note I will betroth
thee to me for ever:
and I will betroth thee to me
in justice, and judgment, and
in loving-kindness, and in
tender mercies.
20 And I will betroth
thee to me in faith: and
thou shalt know that I am
the Lord.
21 And it shall come to
pass in that day: I will hear,
saith the Lord, I will note
hear the heavens, and they
shall hear the earth.
22 And the earth shall
hear the corn, and the wine,
and the oil: and these shall
hear Jezrahel.
23 And I will sow her
unto me in the earth, and I
will have mercy on her that
was Without mercy.
24 And I will say to note
that which was Not my people:
Thou art my people:
and they shall say: Thou
art my God.
Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
