Hosea 2:1

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““Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’”

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BSBPD

““Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ru–hamah.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`Say ye to your brethren--Ammi, And to your sisters--Ruhamah.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Hosea 2:1 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 22:17I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
  2. Exodus 19:5Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
  3. Jeremiah 31:33“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
  4. Jeremiah 32:38They will be My people, and I will be their God.
  5. Jeremiah 51:5For Israel and Judah have not been abandoned by their God, the LORD of Hosts, though their land is full of guilt before the Holy One of Israel.”
  6. Ezekiel 11:20so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.
  7. Ezekiel 36:11I will fill you with people and animals, and they will multiply and be fruitful. I will make you as inhabited as you once were, and I will make you prosper more than before. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
  8. Ezekiel 36:28Then you will live in the land that I gave your forefathers; you will be My people, and I will be your God.
  9. Ezekiel 37:27My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be My people.
  10. Hosea 1:9And the LORD said, “Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not your God.
  11. Hosea 2:23And I will sow her as My own in the land, and I will have compassion on ‘No Compassion.’ I will say to those called ‘Not My People,’ ‘You are My people,’ and they will say, ‘You are my God.’”
  12. Zechariah 13:9This third I will bring through the fire;I will refine them like silverand test them like gold.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.’”
  13. Romans 11:30Just as you who formerly disobeyed God have now received mercy through their disobedience,
  14. 2 Corinthians 4:1Therefore, since God in His mercy has given us this ministry, we do not lose heart.
  15. 1 Timothy 1:13I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.
  16. 1 Peter 2:10Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

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