New American Standard Bible 1995

Hosea 2:8-17

8“For she does 1not know that it was 2I who gave her the grain, the new wine and the oil, And lavished on her silver and gold, Which they 3used for Baal.9Therefore, I will 4take back My grain at 5harvest time And My new wine in its season. I will also take away My wool and My flax Given to cover her nakedness.10And then I will 6uncover her lewdness In the sight of her lovers, And no one will rescue her out of My hand.11I will also 7put an end to all her gaiety, Her 8feasts, her 9new moons, her sabbaths And all her festal assemblies.12I will 10destroy her vines and fig trees, Of which she said, ‘These are my wages Which my lovers have given me.’ And I will 11make them a forest, And the 12beasts of the field will devour them.13I will punish her for the 13days of the Baals When she used to 14 15offer sacrifices to them And 16adorn herself with her 17earrings and jewelry, And follow her lovers, so that she 18forgot Me,” declares the Lord.

14“Therefore, behold, I will allure her, 19Bring her into the wilderness And speak 20kindly to her.15Then I will give her her 21vineyards from there, And 22the valley of Achor as a door of hope. And she will 23 24sing there as in the days of her youth, As in the 25day when she came up from the land of Egypt.16It will come about in that day,” declares the Lord, “That you will call Me 26 27Ishi And will no longer call Me 28Baali.17For 29I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, So that they will be 30mentioned by their names no more.

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Notes

1. Hosea 2:8 Is 1:3 ↩
2. Hosea 2:8 Ezek 16:19 ↩
3. Hosea 2:8 Or made into the ↩
4. Hosea 2:9 Hos 8:7; 9:2 ↩
5. Hosea 2:9 Lit its time ↩
6. Hosea 2:10 Ezek 16:37 ↩
7. Hosea 2:11 Jer 7:34; 16:9 ↩
8. Hosea 2:11 Hos 3:4; Amos 5:21; 8:10 ↩
9. Hosea 2:11 Is 1:13, 14 ↩
10. Hosea 2:12 Jer 5:17; 8:13 ↩
11. Hosea 2:12 Is 5:5; 7:23 ↩
12. Hosea 2:12 Hos 13:8 ↩
13. Hosea 2:13 Hos 4:13; 11:2 ↩
14. Hosea 2:13 Or burn incense ↩
15. Hosea 2:13 Jer 7:9 ↩
16. Hosea 2:13 Ezek 16:12, 17; 23:40 ↩
17. Hosea 2:13 Or nose rings ↩
18. Hosea 2:13 Hos 4:6; 8:14; 13:6 ↩
19. Hosea 2:14 Ezek 20:33-38 ↩
20. Hosea 2:14 Lit upon her heart ↩
21. Hosea 2:15 Ezek 28:25, 26 ↩
22. Hosea 2:15 Josh 7:26 ↩
23. Hosea 2:15 Or give answer ↩
24. Hosea 2:15 Jer 2:1-3; Ezek 16:8-14 ↩
25. Hosea 2:15 Hos 11:1; 12:9, 13; 13:4 ↩
26. Hosea 2:16 I.e. my husband ↩
27. Hosea 2:16 Is 54:5; Hos 2:7 ↩
28. Hosea 2:16 I.e. my master, or my Baal ↩
29. Hosea 2:17 Ex 23:13; Josh 23:7; Ps 16:4 ↩
30. Hosea 2:17 Or remembered ↩

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