The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 1:5 (CSB)

On that day I will break the bow of Israel in Jezreel Valley.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 1:6 (CSB)

She conceived again and gave birth to a daughter, and the Lord said to him:

Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel. I will certainly take them away.

 

[Isny]

Hosea 1:7 (KJV)

But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, or by horsemen.

 

[Isny]

Hosea 1:8 (KJV)

Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.

 

[Isny]

Hosea 1:9 (KJV)

Then said God, Call his name Lo-ammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 1:10 (CSB)

Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted.
And in the place where they were told: You are not my people,

they will be called: Sons of the living God.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 1:11 (CSB)

And the Judeans and the Israelites will be gathered together.They will appoint for themselves a single ruler and go up from the land.
For the day of Jezreel will be great.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 2:1 (CSB)

Call your brothers: My People and your sisters: Compassion.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 2:2 (CSB)

Rebuke your mother; rebuke her.
For she is not my wife and I am not her husband.
Let her remove the promiscuous look from her face
and her adultery from between her breasts.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 2:3 (CSB)

Otherwise, I will strip her naked
and expose her as she was on the day of her birth.
I will make her like a desert
and like a parched land,
and I will let her die of thirst.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 2:4 (CSB)

I will have no compassion on her children
because they are the children of promiscuity.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 2:5 (CSB)

Yes, their mother is promiscuous;
she conceived them and acted shamefully.
For she thought, “I will follow my lovers,
the men who give me my food and water,
my wool and flax, my oil and drink.”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 2:6 (CSB)

Therefore, this is what I will do:
I will block her way with thorns;
I will enclose her with a wall,
so that she cannot find her paths.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 2:7 (CSB)

She will pursue her lovers but not catch them;
she will look for them but not find them.
Then she will think,
“I will go back to my former husband,
for then it was better for me than now.”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 2:8 (CSB)

She does not recognize
that it is I who gave her the grain,
the new wine, and the fresh oil.
I lavished silver and gold on her,
which they used for Baal.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 2:9 (CSB)

Therefore, I will take back my grain in its time
and my new wine in its season;
I will take away my wool and linen,
which were to cover her nakedness.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 2:10 (CSB)

Now I will expose her shame
in the sight of her lovers,
and no one will rescue her from my power.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 2:11 (CSB)

I will put an end to all her celebrations:
her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—
all her festivals.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 2:12 (CSB)

I will devastate her vines and fig trees.
She thinks that these are her wages
that her lovers have given her.
I will turn them into a thicket,
and the wild animals will eat them.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 2:13 (CSB)

And I will punish her for the days of the Baals,
to which she burned incense.
She put on her rings and her jewelry
and followed her lovers,
but she forgot me.

This is the Lord’s declaration.