Hosea 2:1
Say ye unto your brethren, O Ammi [="O my people"], and unto your sisters, O Ruhamah [="O compassionated one"]:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ru-hamah.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 19:5Now, therefore, if ye will, indeed hearken, to my voice, And keep my covenant, Then shall ye be mine as a treasure beyond all the peoples, For, mine, is all the earth;
Jeremiah 32:38And they shall become my people,—And, I, will become their God;
Ezekiel 11:20To the end that in my statutes, they may walk, And mine appointments, they may keep, and do them,— So shall they become my people, And I will become their God.
Ezekiel 36:28And ye shall dwell in the land which I gave to your fathers,- And ye shall become my people, And I will become your God;
Hosea 1:9Then said he, Call his name Lo-ammi [="No people of mine"],—for ye are Lo-ammi ["No people of mine"], and, I, will not be yours.
Zechariah 13:9And I will bring the third into the fire, and will smelt them as one smelteth silver, and will try them, as one trieth gold,—It, will call upon my name, and, I, will answer it, and will say, My people, it is! and, it, will say, Yahweh, 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 →