Hosea 2:1

Call ye your brethren My-people; and your sisters Pitied.

Noyes Bible

In The King James Version

Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ru-hamah.

In Context

2Contend ye with your mother, contend! For she is not my wife, Nor am I her husband; That she put away lewdness from her face, And adultery from her breasts, Lest I strip her naked, And expose her, as when she was born;

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Cross References

Jeremiah 32:38and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 11:20that they may walk in my statutes, and observe my ordinances, and keep them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 36:28And ye shall dwell in the land which I gave to your fathers, and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.

Hosea 1:9And God said, Call his name Not-my-people. For ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.

Zechariah 13:9And I will bring the third part through the fire, And will refine them, as silver is refined, And will try them, as gold is tried; They shall call upon me, and I will hear them; I will say, “It is my people.” And they shall say, “Jehovah is our God.”

Matthew Henry on Hosea 2:1

The scope of this chapter seems to be much the same with that of the foregoing chapter, and to point at the same events, and the causes of them. As there, so here, I. God, by the prophet, discovers sin to them, and charges it home upon them, the sin of their idolatry, their spiritual whoredom, their serving idols and forgetting God and their obligations to him, ver. 1, 2 , 5 , 8 . II. He threatens to take away from them that plenty of all good things with which they had served their idols, and to abandon them to… Read the whole commentary →

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