Hosea 2 · Verse 1

Hosea 2:1

Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ru–hamah.
Hosea 2:1, King James Version

Hosea 2:1 in other translations

BSB“Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’
WEB“Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’ and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’
ASVSay ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
YLT‘Say ye to your brethren--Ammi, And to your sisters--Ruhamah.
DARBYSay unto your brethren Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
BBESay to your brothers, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
WebsterSay ye to your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.

What does Hosea 2:1 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

Ho 2:1-23. Application of the Symbols in the First Chapter.

Israel's spiritual fornication, and her threatened punishment: yet a promise of God's restored favor, when chastisements have produced their designed effect. 1. Say ... unto ... brethren, Ammi, &c.--that is, When the prediction (Ho 1:11) shall be accomplished, then ye will call one another, as brothers and sisters in the family of God, Ammi and Ruhamah.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Introduction

The prophet exhorts his people to speak and to act as became those who obtained mercy of God; and to remonstrate strongly against the conduct of their mother, (Samaria), whose captivity is threatened on account of her forsaking God, and ascribing her prosperity to idols, Hos 2:1-5. As an amplification of this threatening, the prophet enumerates a series of afflictions which were to befall her to bring her to a sense of her duty to God; and of her folly in seeking after idols, and falsely ascribing to them the blessings of Providence, Hos 2:6-13. After these corrections, however, God promises to conduct Israel safely to their own land; perhaps alluding to their restoration from the Babylonish captivity, for this prophecy is supposed to have been delivered about two hundred and fifty years prior to this event, Hos 2:14, Hos 2:15. He farther engages to deal with them as a tender husband, and not as a severe master, as were the idols which they served, Hos 2:16, Hos 2:17. The rest of the chapter promises the people of God, the true Israel, security from every evil, with the possession of every blessing, under a new covenant; and that in terms full of beauty, energy, and consolation. Heaven and earth, and whatever they contain; all nature, and the God of nature, are represented as uniting to make the people of God happy; so that if they only breathe a wish, one part of nature, animate or inanimate, echoes it to another, and all join in sweet harmony to transmit it to the ear of the Almighty. "I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; and the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel." Verse 1 Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi - I prefer the interpretation of these proper names. Say ye unto your brethren, My People; and, to your sisters, who have Obtained Mercy.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Hosea 2:1-5
The idolatry of the people. (Hos. 2:1-5) God's judgments against them. (Hos. 2:6-13) His promises of reconciliation. (Hos. 2:14-23) Verses 1-5 This chapter continues the figurative address to Israel, in reference to Hosea's wife and children. Let us own and love as brethren, all whom the Lord seems to put among his children, and encourage them in that they have received mercy. But every Christian, by his example and conduct, must protest against evil and abuses, even among those to whom he belongs and owes respect. Impenitent sinners will soon be stripped of the advantages they misuse, and which they consume upon their lusts.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Hosea 2:1 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אִמְר֥וּ'im.RusayH559
לַאֲחֵיכֶ֖םla.'a.chei.Khemto brothers yourH251
עַמִּ֑י'a.Mipeople myH5971
וְלַאֲחֽוֹתֵיכֶ֖םve.la.'a.cho.tei.Khemand to sisters yourH269
רֻחָֽמָה\׃ru.Cha.mahshe is Shown CompassionH7355

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Hosea 2:1

  • 1 Peter 2:10

    Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

  • Romans 11:30-31

    For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.

  • 1 Timothy 1:13

    Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

  • Hosea 2:23

    And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.

  • Ezekiel 37:27

    My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

  • Jeremiah 32:38

    And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:

  • 2 Corinthians 4:1

    Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;

  • Ezekiel 36:28

    And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.

  • Ezekiel 11:20

    That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

  • Zechariah 13:9

    And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.

  • Hosea 1:9-11

    Then said God, Call his name Lo–ammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God. Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God. Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.

  • Jeremiah 31:33

    But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1 The idolatry of the people.
6 God's judgments against them.
14 His promises of reconciliation with them.

unto.
1:9-11
Ammi. That is, My people.
Ex 19:5,6; Jer 31:33; 32:38; Eze 11:20; 36:28; 37:27; Zec 13:9
Ruhamah. That is, Having obtained mercy.
23; Ro 11:30,31; 2Co 4:1; 1Ti 1:13; 1Pe 2:10

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Context

  • Hosea 2:1

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

  • Hosea 2:2

    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;

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Hosea 2:1 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		DECID á vuestros hermanos, Ammi, y á vuestras hermanas, Ruhama:
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Cependant le nombre des fils d’Israël sera comme le sable de la mer, qui ne peut se mesurer ni nombrer; et il arrivera que, dans le lieu où il leur a été dit: Vous n’êtes pas mon peuple, il leur sera dit: Fils du ✶Dieu vivant.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Sprechet zu euren Brüdern: Mein Volk und zu euren Schwestern: Begnadigte
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Dicite fratribus vestris: Populus meus; et sorori vestræ: Misericordiam consecuta.