Hosea 1:2

2When the Lord began to speak through Hosea, the Lord said to him, “Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the Lord.”

2When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife 1:2 Lit of infidelity; or fornicationinclined to infidelity, and children of infidelity; for the land commits flagrant infidelity, 1:2 Lit away fromabandoning the Lord.”

2When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry; for the land commits flagrant harlotry, forsaking the Lord.”

2When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to him, “Go, take for yourself a 1:2 Some scholars interpret this to mean that Gomer was chaste at the time of the marriage, but later became an adulteress. As such, she symbolizes the future unfaithfulness of Israel.wife of prostitution and have children of [her] prostitution; for the land commits great acts of prostitution by 1:2 Lit forsaking.not following the Lord.”

2When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery, because this land is flagrantly prostituting itself by departing from the Lord.”

2The Lord began to speak through Hosea. He said to him, “Go. Marry a woman who has sex with anyone she wants. Have children with her. Do this because the people of the land are like that kind of wife. They have not been faithful to me.”