< Hosea 2 >
1 to say to/for brother: compatriot your people my and to/for sister your to have compassion
Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ru–hamah.
2 to contend in/on/with mother your to contend for he/she/it not woman: wife my and I not man: husband her and to turn aside: remove fornication her from face her and adultery her from between breast her
Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
3 lest to strip her naked and to set her like/as day to beget she and to set: make her like/as wilderness and to set: make her like/as land: country/planet dryness and to die her in/on/with thirst
Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
4 and [obj] son: child her not to have compassion for son: child fornication they(masc.)
And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.
5 for to fornicate mother their be ashamed to conceive them for to say to go: went after to love: lover me to give: give food: bread my and water my wool my and flax my oil my and drink my
For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
6 to/for so look! I to hedge [obj] way: journey your in/on/with thorn and to wall up/off [obj] wall her and path her not to find
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
7 and to pursue [obj] to love: lover her and not to overtake [obj] them and to seek them and not to find and to say to go: went and to return: return to(wards) man: husband my [the] first for be pleasing to/for me then from now
And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.
8 and he/she/it not to know for I to give: give to/for her [the] grain and [the] new wine and [the] oil and silver: money to multiply to/for her and gold to make: offer to/for Baal
For she did not know that I gave her grain, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.
9 to/for so to return: return and to take: take grain my in/on/with time his and new wine my in/on/with meeting: time appointed his and to rescue wool my and flax my to/for to cover [obj] nakedness her
Therefore will I return, and take away my grain in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.
10 and now to reveal: uncover [obj] lewdness her to/for eye: seeing to love: lover her and man: anyone not to rescue her from hand: power my
And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
11 and to cease all rejoicing her feast her month: new moon her and Sabbath her and all meeting: festival her
I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
12 and be desolate: destroyed vine her and fig her which to say wages they(masc.) to/for me which to give: pay to/for me to love: lover me and to set: make them to/for wood and to eat them living thing [the] land: country
And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
13 and to reckon: punish upon her [obj] day [the] Baal which to offer: offer to/for them and to adorn ring her and jewelry her and to go: follow after to love: lover her and [obj] me to forget utterance LORD
And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith Yhwh.
14 to/for so behold I to entice her and to go: take her [the] wilderness and to speak: speak (upon *L(abh)*) heart her
Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
15 and to give: give to/for her [obj] vineyard her from there and [obj] Valley (of Achor) (Valley of) Achor to/for entrance hope and to answer there [to] like/as day youth her and like/as day to ascend: rise she from land: country/planet Egypt
And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
16 and to be in/on/with day [the] he/she/it utterance LORD to call: call by man: husband my and not to call: call by to/for me still Baal my
And it shall be at that day, saith Yhwh, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.
17 and to turn aside: remove [obj] name [the] Baal from lip her and not to remember still in/on/with name their
For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
18 and to cut: make(covenant) to/for them covenant in/on/with day [the] he/she/it with living thing [the] land: country and with bird [the] heaven and creeping [the] land: soil and bow and sword and battle to break from [the] land: country/planet and to lie down: lay down them to/for security
And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
19 and to betroth you to/for me to/for forever: enduring and to betroth you to/for me in/on/with righteousness and in/on/with justice and in/on/with kindness and in/on/with compassion
And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.
20 and to betroth you to/for me in/on/with faithfulness and to know [obj] LORD
I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know Yhwh.
21 and to be in/on/with day [the] he/she/it to answer utterance LORD to answer [obj] [the] heaven and they(masc.) to answer [obj] [the] land: country/planet
And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith Yhwh, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;
22 and [the] land: country/planet to answer [obj] [the] grain and [obj] [the] new wine and [obj] [the] oil and they(masc.) to answer [obj] Jezreel
And the earth shall hear the grain, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.
23 and to sow her to/for me in/on/with land: country/planet and to have compassion [obj] not to have compassion and to say to/for not people my people my you(m. s.) and he/she/it to say God my
And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.