Hosea 2:1-15

 If what I read doesn’t match your Bible, there are two reasonsFirst, I’m reading from Robert Alter’s translation of the Old Testament– so obviously that is different from other standard translations• but another reason is that Alter worked from the Hebrew Bible,◦ and in that version, chapter 1 has only nine verses◦ in our English Bibles there are eleven verses in chapter 1• so those two verses missing in chapter 1 are the beginning of chapter 2 in the Hebrew Bible(If you didn’t get all that, just trust me; the texts are basically the same)– reading through this chapter can be confusing• that’s because in the first part God condemns his unfaithful wife• but without warning, in the second part he is romancing her again