I will indeed bless you and make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the city gates of their enemies.
Hosea 2:1 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Call your brothers: My People and your sisters: Compassion. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [HOSEA], SAY to your brethren, Ammi [or You-are-my-people], and to your sisters, Ruhamah [or You-have-been-pitied-and-have-obtained-mercy]. American Standard Version (1901) Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah. Common English Bible Say to your brother, My People, and to your sister, Compassion: Catholic Public Domain Version "Say to your brothers, 'You are my people,' and to your sister, 'You have obtained mercy.' Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Say ye to your brethren: You are my people, and to your sister: Thou hast obtained mercy. |
I will indeed bless you and make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the city gates of their enemies.
‘Instead, this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days’ #– #the Lord’s declaration. ‘I will put my teaching within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
For Israel and Judah are not left widowed by their God, the Lord of Armies, though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.
so that they will follow my statutes, keep my ordinances, and practise them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
I will fill you with people and animals, and they will increase and be fruitful. I will make you inhabited as you once were and make you better off than you were before. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
You will live in the land that I gave your ancestors; you will be my people, and I will be your God.
My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Rebuke your mother; rebuke her. For she is not my wife and I am not her husband. Let her remove the promiscuous look from her face and her adultery from between her breasts.
I will sow her in the land for myself, and I will have compassion on Lo-ruhamah; I will say to Lo-ammi: You are my people, and he will say, ‘You are my God.’
I will put this third through the fire; I will refine them as silver is refined and test them as gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, “They are my people,” and they will say, “The Lord is our God.” ’
Therefore, since we have this ministry because we were shown mercy, we do not give up.
even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I received mercy because I acted out of ignorance in unbelief,
Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.