Hosea 1 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ And he said: Call his name, Not my people: for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.

² 0 And the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, that is without measure, and shall not be numbered. And it shall be in the place where it shall be said to them: You are not my people: it shall be said to them: Ye are the sons of the living God.

³ 1 And the children of Juda, and the children of Israel shall be gathered together: and they shall appoint themselves one head, and shall come up out of the land: for great is the day of Jezrahel.

⁴ Say ye to your brethren: You are my people, and to your sister: Thou hast obtained mercy.

⁵ Judge your mother, judge her: because she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her put away her fornications from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts.

⁶ Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born: and I will make her as a wilderness, and will set her as a land that none can pass through, and will kill her with drought.

⁷ And I will not have mercy on her children: for they are the children of fornications.

⁸ For their mother hath committed fornication, she that conceived them is covered with shame: for she said: I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread, and my water, my wool, and my flax, my oil, and my drink.

⁹ Wherefore behold I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will stop it up with a wall, and she shall not find her paths.

¹⁰ And she shall follow after her lovers, and shall not overtake them: and she shall seek them, and shall not find, and she shall say: I will go, and return to my first husband, because it was better with me then, than now.

¹¹ And she did not know that I gave her corn and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver, and gold, which they have used in the service of Baal.