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“Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’ and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’ See also: 1 Peter 2:10Hosea 2:23Ezekiel 37:27Contend 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; See also: Isaiah 50:1Jeremiah 3:13Ezekiel 23:45lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst. See also: Ezekiel 16:22Isaiah 32:13-14Amos 8:11-13Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy, for they are children of unfaithfulness. See also: Jeremiah 16:5Hosea 1:2Hosea 1:6For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’ See also: Jeremiah 44:17-18Hosea 3:1Isaiah 1:21Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way. See also: Job 19:8Lamentations 3:7-9Job 3:23She will follow after her lovers, but she won’t overtake them; and she will seek them, but won’t find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband, for then it was better with me than now.’ See also: Jeremiah 2:2Luke 15:17-20Hosea 5:13For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal. See also: Isaiah 1:3Hosea 8:4Hosea 13:2Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness. See also: Isaiah 17:10-11Ezekiel 23:26Haggai 1:6-11Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand. See also: Ezekiel 23:29Luke 12:2-3Psalms 50:22I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies. See also: Isaiah 1:13-14Amos 5:21Amos 8:5I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me,’ and I will make them a forest, and the animals of the field shall eat them. See also: Isaiah 7:23Isaiah 5:5Hosea 2:5I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers and forgot me,” says the LORD. See also: Judges 3:7Hosea 13:6Hosea 11:2“Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her. See also: Isaiah 40:1-2Ezekiel 20:35-36Revelation 12:6I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. See also: Ezekiel 28:26Jeremiah 2:2Hosea 11:1It will be in that day,” says the LORD, “that you will call me ‘my husband,’ and no longer call me ‘my master.’ See also: Isaiah 54:5Hosea 2:7Jeremiah 3:14For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by name. See also: Exodus 23:13Psalms 16:4Joshua 23:7In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, and will make them lie down safely. See also: Ezekiel 34:25Ezekiel 39:9-10Psalms 46:9I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion. See also: 2 Corinthians 11:2Revelation 21:2Isaiah 54:14I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know the LORD. See also: John 17:31 John 4:61 John 5:20It will happen in that day, that I will respond,” says the LORD. “I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth; See also: Zechariah 8:12Isaiah 65:24Romans 8:32and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; and they will respond to Jezreel. See also: Joel 2:19Hosea 1:11Hosea 1:4I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘You are My God!’” See also: Romans 9:25-261 Peter 2:9-10Zechariah 13:9
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)21 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Hosea 2:1
Ver. 1. Brethren, &c. Or, call your brethren, My people; and your sister, Her that hath obtained mercy. This is connected with the latter end of the foregoing chapter, and relates to the converts of Israel. Ch. --- I seemed to have abandoned them at the great day of carnage; (H.) but I will still receive (C.) this portion of my people, as well as Juda. H. --- Disdain not to call them brethren.
More of the ten tribes than of the others embraced the faith of Christ, and more Gentiles than Jews became converts. W.
↑ 1Hosea 2:2
Ver. 2. Your mother: the synagogue. C. --- He addresses Juda, (v. 11, 15.) or all God's people. C.
i. 11. This vineyard yields no good fruit. Is. v. Idolatry prevails. Ezec. xvi. 5. and xxiii. 3.
↑ 2Hosea 2:3
Ver. 3. Drought. In Egypt the people were plunged into idolatry, and oppressed.
C.
↑ 3Hosea 2:4
Ver. 4. Fornications. They imitate their parents. H. --- I will not spare them, as I did some in the wilderness. S. Jer. --- Punishment will not cease till people repent. W.
↑ 4Hosea 2:5
Ver. 5. Lovers: idols, and foreign nations. Ezec. xvi. 15, 33.
↑ 5Hosea 2:6
Ver. 6. Paths. The aid which she sought from foreigners shall prove vain. --- It is often an effect of mercy, when our wicked plans miscarry. S. Jer.
↑ 6Hosea 2:8
Ver. 8. Baal: or they formed idols.
↑ 8Hosea 2:9
Ver. 9. Season. When the harvest is ripe, the loss is more afflicting. God withdraws what proves an occasion of sin. --- Liberty. The creature serves unwillingly. Rom. viii. 21.
↑ 9Hosea 2:10
Ver. 10. Folly, or shame. Gen. xxxiv. 7. Judg. xix. 23.
↑ 10Hosea 2:11
Ver. 11. Times. This was verified during the captivity.
↑ 11Hosea 2:13
Ver. 13. Ear. Heb. "nose-ring," or ornaments hanging from the nose. C.
↑ 13Hosea 2:14
Ver. 14. I will allure her, &c. After her disloyalties, I will still allure her by my grace, &c. and send her vine-dressers, viz. the apostles, originally her own children, who shall open to her the gates of hope; as heretofore, at her coming into the land of promise, she had all good success after she had satisfied the divine justice by the execution of Achan, in the valley of Achor. Jos.
vii. Ch. --- Sept. "I will seduce or make her stray;" plano. H. --- I will permit her to yield to error, in captivity; (Theod.) or will cause her hopes to be frustrated yet in exile I will comfort her.
The Jews were not changed till they had seen the vanity of idols, and suffered much. C. --- God's grace prevents sinners, that they may be converted. W.
↑ 14Hosea 2:15
Ver. 15. Vine. Heb. "vineyards there," (C.) or "from," &c. H. --- Achor. The environs of Jericho were very enchanting. Is. lxv. 10. --- Sing is better than Sept. "shall be humbled." Heb. "shall answer," as people singing alternately. C.
↑ 15Hosea 2:16
Ver. 16. My husband. In Heb. Ishi. --- Baali: my lord. The meaning of this verse is: that, whereas, Ishi and Baali were used indifferently in those days by wives speaking to their husbands, the synagogue, whom God was pleased to consider as his spouse, should call him only Ishi, and abstain from the name of Baali, because of his affinity with the name of the idol Baal.
Ch. --- The very name shall become obsolete. H.
↑ 16Hosea 2:17
Ver. 17. Baalim. It is the plural number of Baal; for there were divers idols of Baal. Ch. --- The Jews hence styled Esbaal, Isboseth; as boseth means
"confusion." 1 Par. viii. 33.
↑ 17Hosea 2:18
Ver. 18. Beasts. The most savage nations shall receive the gospel, and become mild. Is. xi. 6.
Theod. --- Wild beasts shall not infest the land. Lev. xxvi. 22. C.
↑ 18Hosea 2:19
Ver. 19. I will espouse thee, &c. This relates to the happy espousals of Christ with his Church, which shall never be dissolved. Ch. --- God gives the dowry, justice, &c.
↑ 19Hosea 2:20
Ver. 20. Faith, the root of all virtues. We shall be true to each other. This has been realized only in the Church of Christ. C.
↑ 20Hosea 2:21
Ver. 21. Hear the heavens, &c. All shall conspire in favour of the Church, which in the following verse is called Jezrahel, that is, the seed of God. Ch. ---
Harmony shall subsist between all the parts of the universe. The earth shall receive rain, &c. This happiness was enjoyed in figure by the Jews, after their return, and in reality by Christians. Theod.
↑ 21Hosea 2:22
Ver. 22. Jezrahel. This most fruitful valley shall again be covered with abundant crops. The whole nation of the Jews shall be happy. C.
↑ 22Hosea 2:24
Ver. 24. That which is not my people, &c. This relates to the conversion of the Gentiles, (Ch.) as the apostles explain it. 1 Pet. ii. 10. Rom. ix. W.
↑ 24License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses