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Hosea 2:4-15
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Hosea 2:4-15
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The Lord and Israel His Spouse[a]
4 Accuse your mother, accuse!
for she is not my wife,
and I am not her husband.[b]
Let her remove her prostitution from her face.
her adultery from between her breasts,
5 Or I will strip her naked,[c]
leaving her as on the day of her birth;
I will make her like the wilderness,
make her like an arid land,
and let her die of thirst.
6 I will have no pity on her children,
for they are children of prostitution.
7 Yes, their mother has prostituted herself;
she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, “I will go after my lovers,[d]
who give me my bread and my water,
my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.”(A)
8 [e]Therefore, I will hedge in her way with thorns
and erect a wall against her,
so that she cannot find her paths.
9 If she runs after her lovers, she will not overtake them;
if she seeks them she will not find them.
Then she will say,
“I will go back to my first husband,
for I was better off then than now.”(B)
10 She did not know
that it was I who gave her
the grain, the wine, and the oil,
I who lavished upon her silver,
and gold, which they used for Baal,[f]
11 Therefore I will take back my grain in its time,
and my wine in its season;
I will snatch away my wool and my flax,
which were to cover her nakedness.
12 Now I will lay bare her shame
in full view of her lovers,(C)
and no one can deliver her out of my hand.(D)
13 I will put an end to all her joy,
her festivals, her new moons, her sabbaths—
all her seasonal feasts.
14 I will lay waste her vines and fig trees,
of which she said, “These are the fees
my lovers have given me”;
I will turn them into rank growth
and wild animals shall devour them.
15 I will punish her for the days of the Baals,[g]
for whom she burnt incense,
When she decked herself out with her rings and her jewelry,
and went after her lovers—
but me she forgot—oracle of the Lord.(E)
Notas al pie
- 2:4–25 The section contains three oracles of doom (vv. 4–6, 7–9, 10–15), a transition (vv. 16–17), and three oracles of salvation (vv. 18–19, 20–22, 23–25).
- 2:4 The Lord speaks of Israel, still using the example of Hosea’s wife.
- 2:5 I will strip her naked: it was the husband’s responsibility to provide food and clothing for his wife (Ex 21:10) and now, because of her adultery, he takes back his support.
- 2:7 My lovers: even though Israel had experienced the Lord as the God of the desert, covenant and conquest, the people were inclined to turn to the local fertility deities, the Baals, who were believed to be responsible for agricultural success. They easily forgot that the Lord provides them with everything (v. 10; cf. Dt 7:13), and thus prostituted themselves by worshiping other gods.
- 2:8 The crop failures sent by the Lord are meant to make Israel see the folly of its ways.
- 2:10 For Baal: as an offering to Baal or to make statues of Baal.
- 2:15 The days of the Baals: feast days of the Baal cult (v. 13), or the whole period of Israel’s apostasy.
Hosea 2:4-15
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Hosea 2:4-15
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4 I will not show my love to her children,(A)
because they are the children of adultery.(B)
5 Their mother has been unfaithful
and has conceived them in disgrace.
She said, ‘I will go after my lovers,(C)
who give me my food and my water,
my wool and my linen, my olive oil and my drink.’(D)
6 Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes;
I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.(E)
7 She will chase after her lovers but not catch them;
she will look for them but not find them.(F)
Then she will say,
‘I will go back to my husband(G) as at first,(H)
for then I was better off(I) than now.’
8 She has not acknowledged(J) that I was the one
who gave her the grain, the new wine and oil,(K)
who lavished on her the silver and gold(L)—
which they used for Baal.(M)
9 “Therefore I will take away my grain(N) when it ripens,
and my new wine(O) when it is ready.
I will take back my wool and my linen,
intended to cover her naked body.
10 So now I will expose(P) her lewdness
before the eyes of her lovers;(Q)
no one will take her out of my hands.(R)
11 I will stop(S) all her celebrations:(T)
her yearly festivals, her New Moons,
her Sabbath days—all her appointed festivals.(U)
12 I will ruin her vines(V) and her fig trees,(W)
which she said were her pay from her lovers;(X)
I will make them a thicket,(Y)
and wild animals will devour them.(Z)
13 I will punish her for the days
she burned incense(AA) to the Baals;(AB)
she decked herself with rings and jewelry,(AC)
and went after her lovers,(AD)
but me she forgot,(AE)”
declares the Lord.(AF)
14 “Therefore I am now going to allure her;
I will lead her into the wilderness(AG)
and speak tenderly to her.
15 There I will give her back her vineyards,
and will make the Valley of Achor[a](AH) a door of hope.
There she will respond[b](AI) as in the days of her youth,(AJ)
as in the day she came up out of Egypt.(AK)
Notas al pie
- Hosea 2:15 Achor means trouble.
- Hosea 2:15 Or sing
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