Hosea 2:1
Say to your brother, My people, and to your sister, Pitied.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ru-hamah.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 19:5And now if you⌃ will indeed hear my voice, and keep my covenant, you⌃ shall be to me a peculiar people above all nations; for the whole earth is mine.
Jeremiah 32:38He has forsaken his lair, as a lion: for their land is become desolate before the great sword.
Ezekiel 11:20that they may walk in my commandments, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and they shall be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.
Ezekiel 36:28And you⌃ shall dwell upon the land which I gave to your fathers; and you⌃ shall be to me a people, and I will be to you a God.
Hosea 1:9And he said, Call his name, Not my people: for you⌃ are not my people, and I am not your God.
Zechariah 13:9And I will bring the third part through the fire, and I will try them as silver is tried, and I will prove them as gold is proved: they shall call upon my name, and I will hear them, and say, This is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my 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 →