Hos 2:1-2 | ESV | STEP | Say to your brothers , You are my people , and to your sisters , You have received mercy .

Hosea 2:1-2

Israel’s Unfaithfulness Punished

1 ^{▼▼Ch 2:3 in Hebrew} Say to your brothers, ^b“You are my people,” ^{▼▼Hebrew ammi, which means my people} and to your sisters, ^d“You have received mercy.” ^{▼▼Hebrew ruhama, which means she has received mercy}

2 “Plead with your mother, plead—
for ^fshe is not my wife,
and I am not her husband—
that she put away ^gher whoring from her face,
and her adultery from between her breasts;