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Israel and Yahweh: The Marital Metaphor in Song of Songs and Hosea -…
Israel and Yahweh: The Marital Metaphor in Song of Songs and Hosea
Roles within the allegories: Who represents who?
Book of Hosea
Hosea(Husband) =God
Gomer (Wife) =Israel
Song of Songs
Man (husband to be)=God
Woman (wife to be)=israel
LOVE
God will take care of his wife,
Hos 2:16
“I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land; and I will make you lie down in safety”
God's care is conditional
Hos 2:16
God will "take you for my wife in faithfulness; and you shall know the Lord
Love is defined as an infinite covenant
Song 8:6
“Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, passion fierce as the grave”
God's care is conditional
UNION
” (Song 8:6)
Marriage is a status symbol (Song 3:11)
Song 3:11
“Look, O daughters of Zion, at King Solomon, at the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding”
Israel must open up for God, as the Woman opens up for the Man.
Song 5:4
“My beloved thrust his hand into the opening, and my inmost being yearned for him”
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Once Israel opens to God, he reserves the right to withhold his Love and therefore his part of the union
Song 5:6
“I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had turned and was gone...I sought him, but did not find him; I called him, but he gave no answer”
Woman opens to her Man, and is met by nothing
Woman opens to her Man, and is met by nothing
JEALOUSY
God tells Hosea to mirror God's relationship with Israel by marrying a whore
Hos 1:2
“take for yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord”
Hos 3:1
"love a woman who has a lover and is an adulteress, just as the Lord loves the people of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes”
God believes He can give the whore everything her lovers give her
Hos 2:5
“they give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink”
Hos 2:8
“...it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil”
“Plead with your mother, plead...that she put away her whoring from her face...or I will strip her naked...and turn her into a parched land, and kill her with thirst”
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ABUSE
Hosea threatens to abuse Gomer through Jezreel
Hos 2:2-3
“Plead with your mother, plead...that she put away her whoring from her face...or I will strip her naked...and turn her into a parched land, and kill her with thirst”
God threatens Israel through Hosea's children
Hos 1:4
“Name him Jezreel; for in a little while...I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel”
Hos 1:6
“Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have pity on the house of Israel or forgive them”
Hos 1:8
“Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not my people and I am not your God”
God punishes the wife for seeking lovers
Hos 2:6-7
God “will hedge up her way with thorns...so that she cannot find her paths. She shall pursue her lovers...but shall not find them”
God knows he is hurting the wife and putting her through suffering, and does not want her to be saved
Hos 2:10
"no one shall rescue her out of my hand"