Hosea 2:1

Hosea 2:1

1 Say to your brethren,¹ ‘My people,’
And to your sisters,¹ ‘Mercy is shown.’

God’s Unfaithful People

2 “Bring¹ charges against your mother,² bring charges;
For ^ashe is not My wife, nor am I her Husband!
Let her put away her ^bharlotries from her sight,
And her adulteries from between her breasts;

3 Lest ^aI strip her naked
And expose her, as in the day she was ^bborn,
And make her like a wilderness,
And set her like a dry land,
And slay her with ^cthirst.

4 “I will not have mercy on her children,
For they are the ^achildren of harlotry.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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APPLICATION OF THE SYMBOLS IN THE FIRST CHAPTER. (Hos. 2:1-23)

Israel's spiritual fornication, and her threatened punishment: yet a promise of God's restored favor, when chastisements have produced their designed effect.

Say . . . unto . . . brethren, Ammi, etc.—that is, When the prediction (Hosea 1:11) shall be accomplished, then ye will call one another, as brothers and sisters in the family of God, Ammi and Ruhamah.

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