New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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1 Then you will say to your brothers, ‘You are my people’,
and to your sisters, ‘You are loved.’.
2 Plead my cause with your mother;
is she not my wife and I her husband? note
Plead with her to forswear those wanton looks,
to banish the lovers from her bosom.
3 Or I will strip her and expose her
naked as the day she was born;
I will make her bare as the wilderness,
parched as the desert,
and leave her to die of thirst.
4 I will show no love for her children;
they are the offspring of wantonness,
5 and their mother is a wanton.
She who conceived them is shameless;
she says, ‘I will go after my lovers;
they give me my food and drink,
my wool and flax, my oil and my perfumes.’
6 Therefore I will block her note road with thorn-bushes
and obstruct her path note with a wall,
so that she can no longer follow her old ways.
7 When she pursues her lovers she will not overtake them,
when she looks for them she will not find them;
then she will say,
‘I will go back to my husband again;
I was better off with him than I am now.’
8 For she does not know that it is I who gave her
corn, new wine, and oil,
I who lavished upon her silver and gold
which they spent on the Baal.
9 Therefore I will take back
my corn at the harvest and my new wine at the vintage,
and I will take away the wool and the flax
which I gave her to cover her naked body;
10 so I will show her up for the lewd thing she is,
and no lover will want to steal her from me.
12 noteI will ravage the vines and the fig-trees,
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Hosea's unfaithful wife
which she says are the fee
with which her lovers have hired her,
and turn them into jungle where wild beasts shall feed.
11 I will put a stop to her merrymaking,
her pilgrimages and new moons, her sabbaths note and festivals.
13 I will punish her for the holy days
when she burnt sacrifices to the Baalim,
when she decked herself with earrings and necklaces,
ran after her lovers and forgot me.
This is the very word of the Lord.
14 But now listen,
I will woo her, I will go with her into the wilderness
and comfort her:
15 there I will restore her vineyards,
turning the Vale of Trouble into the Gate of Hope, note
and there she will answer as in her youth,
when she came up out of Egypt.
16 On that day she note shall call me ‘My husband’
and shall no more call me ‘My Baal’; note
17 and I will wipe from her lips the very names of the Baalim;
never again shall their names be heard.
This is the very word of the Lord. note
18 Then I will make a covenant on behalf of Israel with the wild beasts,
the birds of the air, and the things that creep on the earth, and I will
break bow and sword and weapon of war and sweep them off the earth,
so that all living creatures may lie down without fear.
19 I will betroth you
to myself for ever, betroth you in lawful wedlock with unfailing devotion
and love;
20 I will betroth you to myself to have and to hold, and you shall
know the Lord.
21 At that time I will give answer, says the Lord, I will
answer for the heavens and they will answer for the earth,
22 and the earth
will answer for the corn, the new wine, and the oil, and they will
answer for Jezreel.
23 Israel shall be my new sowing in the land, and I will
show love to Lo-ruhamah and say to Lo-ammi, ‘You are my people’,
and he will say, ‘Thou art my God.’
New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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