Hosea 2
1 “On that day you will call your brothers Ammi, and you will call your sisters Ruhamah.
Dicite fratribus vestris: Populus meus: et sorori vestræ, Misericordiam consecuta.
2 Condemn your mother, condemn her because she is not my wife and I am not her husband. Tell her to stop looking like a prostitute—get rid of the makeup and the provocative clothing.
Iudicate matrem vestram, iudicate: quoniam ipsa non uxor mea, et ego non vir eius. Auferat fornicationes suas a facie sua, et adulteria sua de medio uberum suorum.
3 Otherwise I will strip her naked as the day she was born, and make her like a desert, a barren land, and let her die of thirst.
Ne forte expoliem eam nudam, et statuam eam secundum diem nativitatis suæ: et ponam eam quasi solitudinem, et statuam eam velut terram inviam, et interficiam eam siti.
4 I will have no pity on her children because they are children of prostitution.
Et filiorum illius non miserebor: quoniam filii fornicationum sunt.
5 For their mother was a prostitute who conceived them in a shameful way. She said, ‘I'll run after my lovers who give me my food and water, my wool and flax and olive oil, and my drink.’
Quia fornicata est mater eorum, confusa est quæ concepit eos: quia dixit: Vadam post amatores meos, qui dant panes mihi, et aquas meas, lanam meam, et linum meum, oleum meum, et potum meum.
6 That is why I am going to block her path with thorn bushes, and build a stone wall to stop her so she won't find her way.
Propter hoc, ecce, ego sepiam viam tuam spinis, et sepiam eam maceria, et semitas suas non inveniet.
7 When she runs after her lovers she won't catch up with them; she'll look for them but she won't find them. Then she'll say, ‘Let me go back to my former husband, because it was better for me then than now.’
Et sequetur amatores suos, et non apprehendet eos: et quæret eos, et non inveniet, et dicet: Vadam, et revertar ad virum meum priorem: quia bene mihi erat tunc magis quam nunc.
8 She doesn't consider that it was me who gave her grain, new wine, and olive oil; the silver and the gold which I gave her abundantly that they made into an idol of Baal.
Et hæc nescivit, quia ego dedi ei frumentum, et vinum, et oleum, et argentum multiplicavi ei, et aurum, quæ fecerunt Baal.
9 So I will take back my ripened grain and my new wine I gave at harvest time. I will take back my wool and my flax I provided to cover her nakedness.
Idcirco convertar, et sumam frumentum meum in tempore suo, et vinum meum in tempore suo, et liberabo lanam meam et linum meum, quæ operiebant ignominiam eius.
10 I will strip her naked while her lovers watch; no one will be able to rescue her from me.
Et nunc revelabo stultitiam eius in oculis amatorum eius: et vir non eruet eam de manu mea:
11 I will put a stop to all her festivities: her feasts, new moon celebrations, special Sabbaths—all her festivals.
et cessare faciam omne gaudium eius, sollemnitatem eius, neomeniam eius, sabbatum eius, et omnia festa tempora eius.
12 I will destroy her vines and fig trees that she said were given to her as payment for being a prostitute. I will turn them into scrub-land; only wild animals will eat the remaining fruit.
Et corrumpam vineam eius, et ficum eius: de quibus dixit: Mercedes hæ, meæ sunt, quas dederunt mihi amatores mei: et ponam eam in saltum, et comedet eam bestia agri.
13 I will punish her for all the times she offered incense to Baal, dressing herself up, putting on rings and jewelry, going after her lovers, but forgetting about me, declares the Lord.
Et visitabo super eam dies Baalim, quibus accendebat incensum, et ornabatur inaure sua, et monili suo, et ibat post amatores suos, et mei obliviscebatur, dicit Dominus.
14 See what I'm going to do! I will win her back, taking her into the desert where I will speak to her heart-to-heart.
Propter hoc, ecce, ego lactabo eam, et ducam eam in solitudinem: et loquar ad cor eius.
15 There I will return her vineyards to her and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. There she will respond to me as she did when she was young, as in the time when she left the land of Egypt.
Et dabo ei vinitores eius ex eodem loco, et Vallem Achor ad aperiendam spem: et canet ibi iuxta dies iuventutis suæ, et iuxta dies ascensionis suæ de Terra Ægypti.
16 Then on that day, says the Lord, you will call me ‘my husband’ and not ‘my Baal.’
Et erit in die illa, ait Dominus: vocabit me: Vir meus: et non vocabit me ultra, Baali.
17 I will stop her appealing to the Baals—their names won't be mentioned ever again.
Et auferam nomina Baalim de ore eius, et non recordabitur ultra nominis eorum.
18 At that time I will make a solemn agreement with the wild animals and the birds of the sky and the creeping things of the ground. I will do away with the bow and the sword; I will abolish war from the land so you can lie down in safety.
Et percutiam cum eis fœdus in die illa, cum bestia agri, et cum volucre cæli, et cum reptili terræ: et arcum, et gladium, et bellum conteram de terra: et dormire eos faciam fiducialiter.
19 I will make you my wife forever; I will make you my wife in goodness and justice and love and mercy.
Et sponsabo te mihi in sempiternum: et sponsabo te mihi in iustitia, et iudicio, et in misericordia, et in miserationibus.
20 I will be faithful to you, my wife, and you will know me as the Lord.
Et sponsabo te mihi in fide: et scies quia ego Dominus.
21 On that day, declares the Lord, I will answer the heavens and they will answer the earth.
Et erit in die illa: Exaudiam, dicit Dominus, exaudiam cælos, et illi exaudient terram.
22 The earth will answer the grain, and the new wine, and the olive oil, and they shall answer, ‘Jezreel’ (God sows).
Et terra exaudiet triticum, et vinum, et oleum: et hæc exaudient Iezrahel.
23 I will ‘sow’ her for myself in the earth. I will love Lo-ruhamah (unloved) and I will say ‘you are my people’ to Lo-ammi (not my people), and they will say ‘You are my God.’”
Et seminabo eam mihi in terra, et miserebor eius, quæ fuit Absque Misericordia. Et dicam Non Populo Meo: Populus meus es tu: et ipse dicet: Deus meus es tu.
