Hosea 2:2

King James Version (KJV)

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;

Translations

Hosea 2:2 - Amplified Bible

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,

Hosea 2:2 - American Standard Version

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;

Hosea 2:2 - Bible in Basic English

Take up the cause against your mother, take it up, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; let her put away her loose ways from her face, and her false ways from between her breasts;

Hosea 2:2 - Darby Bible

Plead with your mother, plead; 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;

Hosea 2:2 - English Standard Version

"Plead with your mother, plead– for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband– that she put away her whoring from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts;

Hosea 2:2 - King James Version

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;

Hosea 2:2 - La Biblia de las Americas

Contended con vuestra madre, contended,
porque ella no es mi mujer, y yo no soy su marido;
que quite, pues, de su rostro sus prostituciones,
y sus adulterios de entre sus pechos;

Hosea 2:2 - The Message

"Haul your mother into court. Accuse her!
   She’s no longer my wife.
   I’m no longer her husband.
Tell her to quit dressing like a whore,
   displaying her breasts for sale.
If she refuses, I’ll rip off her clothes
   and expose her, naked as a newborn.
I’ll turn her skin into dried-out leather,
   her body into a badlands landscape,
   a rack of bones in the desert.
I’ll have nothing to do with her children,
   born one and all in a whorehouse.
Face it: Your mother’s been a whore,
   bringing bastard children into the world.
She said, ’I’m off to see my lovers!
   They’ll wine and dine me,
Dress and caress me,
   perfume and adorn me!’
But I’ll fix her: I’ll dump her in a field of thistles,
   then lose her in a dead-end alley.
She’ll go on the hunt for her lovers
   but not bring down a single one.
She’ll look high and low
   but won’t find a one. Then she’ll say,
’I’m going back to my husband, the one I started out with.
   That was a better life by far than this one.’
She didn’t know that it was I all along
   who wined and dined and adorned her,
That I was the one who dressed her up
   in the big-city fashions and jewelry
   that she wasted on wild Baal-orgies.
I’m about to bring her up short: No more wining and dining!
   Silk lingerie and gowns are a thing of the past.
I’ll expose her genitals to the public.
   All her fly-by-night lovers will be helpless to help her.
Party time is over. I’m calling a halt to the whole business,
   her wild weekends and unholy holidays.
I’ll wreck her sumptuous gardens and ornamental fountains,
   of which she bragged, ’Whoring paid for all this!’
They will soon be dumping grounds for garbage,
   feeding grounds for stray dogs and cats.
I’ll make her pay for her indulgence in promiscuous religion—
   all that sensuous Baal worship
And all the promiscuous sex that went with it,
   stalking her lovers, dressed to kill,
And not a thought for me."
   God’s Message!

Hosea 2:2 - New American Standard Bible

"Contend with your mother, contend, For she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; And let her put away her harlotry from her face And her adultery from between her breasts,

Hosea 2:2 - Nueva Biblia Latinoamericana de Hoy

"Discutan con su madre, discutan,
Porque ella no es mi mujer, y Yo no soy su marido;
Que quite, pues, de su rostro sus prostituciones,
Y sus adulterios de entre sus pechos;

Hosea 2:2 - World English Bible

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

Hosea 2:2 - Young's Living Translation

Plead ye with your mother -- plead, (For she [is] not My wife, and I [am] not her husband,) And she turneth her whoredoms from before her, And her adulteries from between her breasts,

Hosea 2:2 - Additional Comments

In the same way God disowned Israel because of her adulteries (vs 1:9), Hosea disowns his wife because of hers.
Read James 4:4-10. God considers people to be adulterous when they are friends with the world.

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