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New American Standard Bible 2020

Hosea 2:6-23

6Therefore, behold, I will 1obstruct 2her way with 3thorns, And I will build 4a stone wall against her so that she cannot find her 5paths.7And she will 6pursue her lovers, but she will not reach them; And she will seek them, but will not find them. Then she will say, ‘7I will go back to my 8first husband, Because it was 9better for me then than now!’

8“Yet she does 10not know that it was 11I myself who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, And lavished on her silver and gold, Which they 12used for Baal.9Therefore, I will 1314take back My grain at 15harvest time And My new wine in its season. I will also take away My wool and My flax That I gave to cover her nakedness.10So now I will 16uncover her 17lewdness Before the eyes of her lovers, And no one will rescue her from My hand.11I will also 18put an end to all her joy, Her 19feasts, her 20new moons, her Sabbaths, And all her festivals.12And I will 21destroy her vines and fig trees, Of which she said, ‘They are my wages for prostitution Which my lovers have given me.’ And I will 22turn them into a forest, And the 23animals of the field will devour them.13I will punish her for the 24days of the Baals When she used to 2526offer sacrifices to them And 27adorn herself with her nose ring and jewelry, And follow her lovers, so that she 28forgot Me,” declares the Lord.

14“Therefore, behold, I am going to persuade her, 29Bring her into the wilderness, And speak 30kindly to her.15Then I will give her her 31vineyards from there, And 32the 33Valley of Achor as a door of hope. And she will 3435respond there as in the days of her youth, As in the 36day when she went up from the land of Egypt.16And it will come about on that day,” declares the Lord, “That you will call Me 3738my husband And no longer call Me my 39Baal.17For 40I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, So that they will no longer be 41mentioned by their names.18On that day I will also make a covenant for them With the 42animals of the field, The birds of the sky, And the crawling things of the ground. And I will 4344eliminate the bow, the sword, and war from the land, And will let them 45lie down in safety.19I will 46betroth you to Me forever; Yes, I will betroth you to Me in 47righteousness and in justice, In favor and in compassion,20And I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness. Then you will 48know the Lord.

21“And it will come about on that day that 49I will respond,” declares the Lord. “I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth,22And the 50earth will respond to the grain, to the new wine, and to the oil, And they will respond to 51Jezreel.23I will 52sow her for Myself in the land. 53I will also have compassion on 54her who had not obtained compassion, And 55I will say to 56those who were 57not My people, ‘You are My people!’ And 58they will say, ‘You are my God!’”

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  1. 1. Hosea 2:6 Job 19:8; Lam 3:7, 9 ↩
  2. 2. Hosea 2:6 As in some ancient versions; MT your ↩
  3. 3. Hosea 2:6 Hos 9:6; 10:8 ↩
  4. 4. Hosea 2:6 Lit her stone wall so that ↩
  5. 5. Hosea 2:6 Jer 18:15 ↩
  6. 6. Hosea 2:7 Hos 5:13 ↩
  7. 7. Hosea 2:7 Luke 15:17, 18 ↩
  8. 8. Hosea 2:7 Jer 2:2; 3:1; Ezek 16:8; 23:4 ↩
  9. 9. Hosea 2:7 Jer 14:22; Hos 13:6 ↩
  10. 10. Hosea 2:8 Is 1:3 ↩
  11. 11. Hosea 2:8 Ezek 16:19 ↩
  12. 12. Hosea 2:8 Or made into the ↩
  13. 13. Hosea 2:9 Lit return and take My ↩
  14. 14. Hosea 2:9 Hos 8:7; 9:2 ↩
  15. 15. Hosea 2:9 Lit its time ↩
  16. 16. Hosea 2:10 Ezek 16:37 ↩
  17. 17. Hosea 2:10 Or shame ↩
  18. 18. Hosea 2:11 Jer 7:34; 16:9 ↩
  19. 19. Hosea 2:11 Hos 3:4; Amos 5:21; 8:10 ↩
  20. 20. Hosea 2:11 Is 1:13, 14 ↩
  21. 21. Hosea 2:12 Jer 5:17; 8:13 ↩
  22. 22. Hosea 2:12 Is 5:5; 7:23 ↩
  23. 23. Hosea 2:12 Hos 13:8 ↩
  24. 24. Hosea 2:13 Hos 4:13; 11:2 ↩
  25. 25. Hosea 2:13 Or burn incense ↩
  26. 26. Hosea 2:13 Jer 7:9 ↩
  27. 27. Hosea 2:13 Ezek 16:12, 17; 23:40 ↩
  28. 28. Hosea 2:13 Hos 4:6; 8:14; 13:6 ↩
  29. 29. Hosea 2:14 Ezek 20:33-38 ↩
  30. 30. Hosea 2:14 Lit upon her heart ↩
  31. 31. Hosea 2:15 Ezek 28:25, 26 ↩
  32. 32. Hosea 2:15 Josh 7:26 ↩
  33. 33. Hosea 2:15 Lit Valley of Trouble ↩
  34. 34. Hosea 2:15 Or give answer ↩
  35. 35. Hosea 2:15 Jer 2:1-3; Ezek 16:8-14 ↩
  36. 36. Hosea 2:15 Hos 11:1; 12:9, 13; 13:4 ↩
  37. 37. Hosea 2:16 Heb Ishi ↩
  38. 38. Hosea 2:16 Is 54:5; Hos 2:7 ↩
  39. 39. Hosea 2:16 Also meaning husband in Heb, besides a name for false gods ↩
  40. 40. Hosea 2:17 Ex 23:13; Josh 23:7; Ps 16:4 ↩
  41. 41. Hosea 2:17 Or remembered ↩
  42. 42. Hosea 2:18 Job 5:23; Is 11:6-9; Ezek 34:25 ↩
  43. 43. Hosea 2:18 Lit break ↩
  44. 44. Hosea 2:18 Is 2:4; Ezek 39:1-10 ↩
  45. 45. Hosea 2:18 Lev 26:5; Jer 23:6; Ezek 34:25 ↩
  46. 46. Hosea 2:19 Is 62:4, 5 ↩
  47. 47. Hosea 2:19 Is 1:27; 54:6-8 ↩
  48. 48. Hosea 2:20 Jer 31:33, 34; Hos 6:6; 13:4 ↩
  49. 49. Hosea 2:21 Is 55:10; Zech 8:12; Mal 3:10, 11 ↩
  50. 50. Hosea 2:22 Jer 31:12; Joel 2:19 ↩
  51. 51. Hosea 2:22 I.e., God sows ↩
  52. 52. Hosea 2:23 Jer 31:27 ↩
  53. 53. Hosea 2:23 Hos 1:6 ↩
  54. 54. Hosea 2:23 Heb Lo-ruhamah ↩
  55. 55. Hosea 2:23 Rom 9:25; 1 Pet 2:10 ↩
  56. 56. Hosea 2:23 Heb Lo-ammi ↩
  57. 57. Hosea 2:23 Hos 1:9 ↩
  58. 58. Hosea 2:23 Lit he ↩

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