Hosea 2

1 'Say ye to your brethren — Ammi, And to your sisters — Ruhamah.

to say to/for brother: compatriot your people my and to/for sister your to have compassion

2 Plead ye with your mother — plead, (For she [is] not My wife, and I [am] not her husband, ) And she turneth her whoredoms from before her, And her adulteries from between her breasts,

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

3 Lest I strip her naked. And have set her up as [in] the day of her birth, And have made her as a wilderness, And have set her as a dry land, And have put her to death with thirst.

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

4 And her sons I do not pity, For sons of whoredoms [are] they,

and [obj] son: child her not to have compassion for son: child fornication they(masc.)

5 For gone a-whoring hath their mother, Acted shamefully hath their conceiver, For she hath said, I go after my lovers, Those giving my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

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

6 Therefore, lo, I am hedging up thy way with thorns, And I have made for her a wall, And her paths she doth not find.

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

7 And she hath pursued her lovers, And she doth not overtake them, And hath sought them, and doth not find, And she hath said: I go, and I turn back unto My first husband, For — better to me then than now.

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

8 And she knew not that I had given to her, The corn, and the new wine, and the oil. Yea, silver I did multiply to her, And the gold they prepared for Baal.

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

9 Therefore do I turn back, And I have taken My corn in its season, And My new wine in its appointed time, And I have taken away My wool and My flax, covering her nakedness.

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

10 And now do I reveal her dishonour before the eyes of her lovers, And none doth deliver her out of My hand.

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

11 And I have caused to cease all her joy, Her festival, her new moon, and her sabbath, Even all her appointed times,

and to cease all rejoicing her feast her month: new moon her and Sabbath her and all meeting: festival her

12 And made desolate her vine and her fig-tree, Of which she said, A gift they [are] to me, That my lovers have given to me, And I have made them for a forest, And consumed them hath a beast of the field.

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

13 And I have charged on her the days of the Baalim, To whom she maketh perfume, And putteth on her ring and her ornament, And goeth after her lovers, And Me forgat — an affirmation of Jehovah.

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

14 Therefore, lo, I am enticing her, And have caused her to go to the wilderness, And I have spoken unto her heart,

to/for so behold I to entice her and to go: take her [the] wilderness and to speak: speak (upon *L(abh)*) heart her

15 And given to her her vineyards from thence, And the valley of Achor for an opening of hope, And she hath responded there as in the days of her youth, And as in the day of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.

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

16 And it hath come to pass, in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah, Thou dost call Me — My husband, And dost not call Me any more — My lord.

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

17 And I have turned aside the names of the lords from her mouth, And they are not remembered any more by their name.

and to turn aside: remove [obj] name [the] Baal from lip her and not to remember still in/on/with name their

18 And I have made to them a covenant in that day, with the beast of the field, And with the fowl of the heavens, And the creeping thing of the ground, And bow, and sword, and war I break from off the land, And have caused them to lie down confidently.

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

19 And I have betrothed thee to Me to the age, And betrothed thee to Me in righteousness, And in judgment, and kindness, and mercies,

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

20 And betrothed thee to Me in faithfulness, And thou hast known Jehovah.

and to betroth you to/for me in/on/with faithfulness and to know [obj] LORD

21 And it hath come to pass in that day, I answer — an affirmation of Jehovah, I answer the heavens, and they answer the earth.

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

22 And the earth doth answer the corn, And the new wine, and the oil, And they answer Jezreel.

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

23 And I have sowed her to Me in the land, And I have pitied Lo-Ruhamah, And I have said to Lo-Ammi, My people thou [art], and it saith, My God!'

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