Hosea 2:2
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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.

Plead with.

Isaiah 58:1 Cry, cease not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their wicked doings, and the house of Jacob their sins.

Jeremiah 2:2 Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying: Thus saith the Lord: I have remembered thee, pitying thy youth, and the love of thy espousals, when thou followedst me in the desert, in a land that is not sown.

Jeremiah 19:3 And thou shalt say: Hear the word of the Lord, O ye kings of Juda, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold I will bring an affliction upon this place: so that whosoever shall hear it, his ears shall tingle:

Ezekiel 20:4 If thou judgest them, if thou judgest, O son of man, declare to them the abominations of their fathers.

Ezekiel 23:45 They therefore are just men: these shall judge them as adulteresses are judged, and as shedders of blood are judged: because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

Matthew 23:37-39 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldst not? . . .

Acts 7:51-53 You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost. As your fathers did, so do you also. . . .

2 Corinthians 5:16 Wherefore henceforth, we know no man according to the flesh. And if we have known Christ according to the flesh: but now we know him so no longer.

she.

Isaiah 50:1 Thus saith the Lord: What is this bill of the divorce of your mother, with which I have put her away? or who is my creditor, to whom I sold you: behold you are sold for your iniquities, and for your wicked deeds have I put your mother away.

Jeremiah 3:6-8 And the Lord said to me in the days of king Josias: Hast thou seen what rebellious Israel hath done? she hath gone of herself upon every high mountain, and under every green tree, and hath played the harlot there. . . .

let.

Hosea 1:2 The beginning of the Lord's speaking by Hosea: and the Lord said to Hosea: Go, take thee a wife of fornications, and have of her children of fornications: for the land by fornication shall depart from the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:1,9,13 It is commonly said: If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and marry another man, shall he return to her any more? shall not that woman be polluted, and defiled? but thou hast prostituted thyself to many lovers: nevertheless return to me, saith the Lord, and I will receive thee. . . .

Ezekiel 16:20,25 And thou hast taken thy sons, and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne to me: and hast sacrificed the same to them to be devoured. Is thy fornication small? . . .

Ezekiel 23:43 And I said to her that was worn out in her adulteries: Now will this woman still continue in her fornication.

Context
Israel's Adultery Rebuked
1Say ye to your brethren: You are my people: and to your sister: Thou hast obtained mercy. 2Judge 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.3Lest 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.…
Cross References
Isaiah 50:1
Thus saith the Lord: What is this bill of the divorce of your mother, with which I have put her away? or who is my creditor, to whom I sold you: behold you are sold for your iniquities, and for your wicked deeds have I put your mother away.

Jeremiah 3:1
It is commonly said: If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and marry another man, shall he return to her any more? shall not that woman be polluted, and defiled? but thou hast prostituted thyself to many lovers: nevertheless return to me, saith the Lord, and I will receive thee.

Jeremiah 3:9
And by the facility of her fornication she defiled the land, and played the harlot with stones and with stocks.

Ezekiel 23:45
They therefore are just men: these shall judge them as adulteresses are judged, and as shedders of blood are judged: because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

Hosea 2:1
Say ye to your brethren: You are my people: and to your sister: Thou hast obtained mercy.

Hosea 2:5
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.

Hosea 4:5
And thou shalt fall today, and the prophet also shall fall with thee: in the night I have made thy mother to be silent.

Lexicon
Rebuke
רִ֤יבוּ (rî·ḇū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7378: To toss, grapple, to wrangle, controversy, to defend

your mother,
בְאִמְּכֶם֙ (ḇə·’im·mə·ḵem)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 517: A mother, )

rebuke her.
רִ֔יבוּ (rî·ḇū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7378: To toss, grapple, to wrangle, controversy, to defend

For
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

she
הִיא֙ (hî)
Pronoun - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

is not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

My wife,
אִשְׁתִּ֔י (’iš·tî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 802: Woman, wife, female

and I
וְאָנֹכִ֖י (wə·’ā·nō·ḵî)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 595: I

am not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

her husband.
אִישָׁ֑הּ (’î·šāh)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 376: A man as an individual, a male person

Let her remove
וְתָסֵ֤ר (wə·ṯā·sêr)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive imperfect Jussive - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5493: To turn aside

the adultery
זְנוּנֶ֙יהָ֙ (zə·nū·ne·hā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2183: Adultery, idolatry

from her face
מִפָּנֶ֔יה‪‬ (mip·pā·neh)
Preposition-m | Noun - common plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6440: The face

and the unfaithfulness
וְנַאֲפוּפֶ֖יהָ (wə·na·’ă·p̄ū·p̄e·hā)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5005: Adultery

from between
מִבֵּ֥ין (mib·bên)
Preposition-m
Strong's Hebrew 996: An interval, space between

her breasts.
שָׁדֶֽיהָ׃ (šā·ḏe·hā)
Noun - mdc | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7699: The breast of a, woman, animal


Additional Translations
Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her prostitutions out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

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;

Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband: and I will remove her fornication out of my presence, and her adultery from between her breasts:

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;

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;

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

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;

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,
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