Hosea 2:2 - The Scriptures 1998

² “Strive with your mother, strive, for she is not My wife, nor am I her Husband! Let her put away her whorings from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Plead with your mother [your nation]; plead, for she is not My wife and I am not her Husband; [plead] that she put away her [marks of] harlotry from her face and her adulteries from between her breasts, [Isa. 50:1.]

American Standard Version (1901)

² Contend with your mother, contend; for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

Common English Bible

² Level a charge against your mother; plead with her! She is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove prostitution from her presence, and adultery from between her breasts,

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Judge your mother, judge: for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove her fornications from before her face and her adulteries from between her breasts.

Hosea 2:2 Cross References

Isaiah 11:12

And He shall raise a banner for the nations, and gather the outcasts of Yisra’ĕ

Isaiah 50:1

Thus says יהוה, “Where is the certificate of your mother’s divorce, whom I have put away? Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Look, you were sold for your crookednesses, and your mother was put away for your transgressions.

Isaiah 58:1

“Cry aloud, do not spare. Lift up your voice like a ram’s horn. Declare to My people their transgression, and the house of Yaʽ

Jeremiah 19:3

and shall say, ‘Hear the word of יהוה, O sovereigns of Yehuḏ

Jeremiah 2:2

“Go, and you shall cry in the hearing of Yerushalayim, saying, ‘Thus said יהוה, “I remember you, the kindness of your youth, the love of your bridehood, when you went after Me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

Jeremiah 3:1

Elohim said, “If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him and becomes another man’s, does he return to her again? Would not that land be made greatly unclean? But you have committed whoring with many lovers. And would you return to Me?” declares יהוה.

Jeremiah 3:13

‘Only, acknowledge your crookedness, because you have transgressed against יהוה  your Elohim, and have scattered your ways to strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed My voice,’ declares יהוה.

Jeremiah 3:18

“In those days the house of Yehuḏ

Ezekiel 16:20

“And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore to Me, and these you slaughtered as food to them. Were your whorings a small matter,

Ezekiel 16:25

“You built your high places at the head of every way, and made your loveliness to be loathed. And you parted your feet to everyone who passed by, and increased your whorings.

Ezekiel 20:4

“Judge them, son of man, judge them! Make known to them the abominations of their fathers.

Ezekiel 23:43

“Then I said concerning the one worn out in adulteries, ‘Now let them commit her whorings, even hers!’

Ezekiel 23:45

“But let righteous men judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and the judgment of women who shed blood, for they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.

Hosea 1:2

The beginning of the word of יהוה  with Hoshĕ

Hosea 2:1

“Say to your brothers, ‘O my people,’ and to your sisters, ‘O, compassioned one.’

Hosea 2:5

“For their mother has whored, she who conceived them has acted shamelessly. For she said, ‘I go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my drink.’

Hosea 4:5

“And you shall stumble in the day, and the prophet shall also stumble with you in the night. And I shall make your mother perish.

Micah 2:13

“The breach-maker shall go up before them. They shall break out, and pass through the gate, and go out by it, and their sovereign pass before them, with יהוה  at their head!”

2 Corinthians 5:16

So from now onwards we know no one according to the flesh. And if we have known Messiah according to the flesh, yet now we no longer know Him thus.