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Say to your brothers, Ammi,[a] and to your sisters, Ruhamah.[b]

Israel’s Unfaithfulness Punished

Plead with your mother, plead—
    for she is not My wife,
    and am I not her husband—
that she put away her harlotry from her face,
    and her adultery from between her breasts,

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:1 That is, My people.
  2. Hosea 2:1 That is, Pitied.

[a]“Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’(A)

Israel Punished and Restored

“Rebuke your mother,(B) rebuke her,
    for she is not my wife,
    and I am not her husband.
Let her remove the adulterous(C) look from her face
    and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:1 In Hebrew texts 2:1-23 is numbered 2:3-25.