Haftorah Bemidbar
Haftorah: Hosea 2:1-22
2:1 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, instead of that which was said unto them: 'Ye are not My people', it shall be said unto them: 'Ye are the children of the living God.' 2:2 And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint themselves one head, and shall go up out of the land; for great shall be the day of Jezreel. 2:3 Say ye unto your brethren: (f4) 'Ammi'; and to your sisters, 'Ruhamah.' (Footnote 3: That is, My people) (Footnote 4: That is, That hath obtained compassion)
2:4 Plead with your mother, plead; for she is not My wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her harlotries from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts; 2:5 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. 2:6 And I will not have compassion upon her children; for they are children of harlotry. 2:7 For their mother hath played the harlot, she that conceived them hath done shamefully; for she said: 'I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.' 2:8 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will make a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths. 2:9 And she shall run after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them, and she shall seek them, but shall not find them; then shall she say: 'I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.' 2:10 For she did not know that it was I that gave her the corn, and the wine, and the oil, and multiplied unto her silver and gold, which they used for Baal. 2:11 Therefore will I take back My corn in the time thereof, and My wine in the season thereof, and will snatch away My wool and My flax given to cover her nakedness. 2:12 And now will I uncover her shame in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of My hand. 2:13 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her appointed seasons. 2:14 And I will lay waste her vines and her fig-trees, whereof she hath said: 'These are my hire that my lovers have given me'; and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them. 2:15 And I will visit upon her the days of the Baalim, wherein she offered unto them, and decked herself with her ear-rings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot Me, saith the LORD. 2:16 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly unto her. 2:17 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of (f5) Achor for a door of hope; and she shall respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. (Footnote 5: That is, Troubling)
2:18 And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call Me (f7) Ishi, and shalt call Me no more Baali. (Footnote 6: That is, My husband) (Footnote 7: That is, My master)2:19 For I will take away the names of the Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be mentioned by their name. 2:20 And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground; and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the land, and will make them to lie down safely. 2:21 And I will betroth thee unto Me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto Me in righteousness, and in justice, and in lovingkindness, and in compassion. 2:22 And I will betroth thee unto Me in faithfulness; and thou shalt know the LORD.