KJV King James Version
Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Hosea 2:1
Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
“Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’
WEB World English Bible
“Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’ and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’
ASV American Standard Version
Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘Say ye to your brethren—Ammi, And to your sisters—Ruhamah.
Surrounding context — Hosea 2
1 Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
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;
3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they [be] the children of whoredoms.
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1 Peter 2:10Which in time past [were] not a people, but [are] now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.Ezekiel 37:27My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.Romans 11:30-31For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:1 Timothy 1:13Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did [it] ignorantly in unbelief.Hosea 2:23And 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.Jeremiah 32:38And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:Exodus 19:5-6Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth [is] mine:Hosea 1:9-11Then said [God], Call his name Loammi: for ye [are] not my people, and I will not be your [God].Zechariah 13:9And 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.2 Corinthians 4:1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;Ezekiel 36:28And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.Jeremiah 31:33But 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.Ezekiel 11:20That 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.
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