New American Standard Bible 2020

Hosea 2:8-17

8“Yet she does 1not know that it was 2I myself 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 4 5take back My grain at 6harvest 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 7uncover her 8lewdness Before the eyes of her lovers, And no one will rescue her from My hand.11I will also 9put an end to all her joy, Her 10feasts, her 11new moons, her Sabbaths, And all her festivals.12And I will 12destroy her vines and fig trees, Of which she said, ‘They are my wages for prostitution Which my lovers have given me.’ And I will 13turn them into a forest, And the 14animals of the field will devour them.13I will punish her for the 15days of the Baals When she used to 16 17offer sacrifices to them And 18adorn herself with her nose ring and jewelry, And follow her lovers, so that she 19forgot Me,” declares the Lord.

14“Therefore, behold, I am going to persuade her, 20Bring her into the wilderness, And speak 21kindly to her.15Then I will give her her 22vineyards from there, And 23the 24Valley of Achor as a door of hope. And she will 25 26respond there as in the days of her youth, As in the 27day 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 28 29my husband And no longer call Me my 30Baal.17For 31I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, So that they will no longer be 32mentioned by their names.

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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 Lit return and take My ↩
5. Hosea 2:9 Hos 8:7; 9:2 ↩
6. Hosea 2:9 Lit its time ↩
7. Hosea 2:10 Ezek 16:37 ↩
8. Hosea 2:10 Or shame ↩
9. Hosea 2:11 Jer 7:34; 16:9 ↩
10. Hosea 2:11 Hos 3:4; Amos 5:21; 8:10 ↩
11. Hosea 2:11 Is 1:13, 14 ↩
12. Hosea 2:12 Jer 5:17; 8:13 ↩
13. Hosea 2:12 Is 5:5; 7:23 ↩
14. Hosea 2:12 Hos 13:8 ↩
15. Hosea 2:13 Hos 4:13; 11:2 ↩
16. Hosea 2:13 Or burn incense ↩
17. Hosea 2:13 Jer 7:9 ↩
18. Hosea 2:13 Ezek 16:12, 17; 23:40 ↩
19. Hosea 2:13 Hos 4:6; 8:14; 13:6 ↩
20. Hosea 2:14 Ezek 20:33-38 ↩
21. Hosea 2:14 Lit upon her heart ↩
22. Hosea 2:15 Ezek 28:25, 26 ↩
23. Hosea 2:15 Josh 7:26 ↩
24. Hosea 2:15 Lit Valley of Trouble ↩
25. Hosea 2:15 Or give answer ↩
26. Hosea 2:15 Jer 2:1-3; Ezek 16:8-14 ↩
27. Hosea 2:15 Hos 11:1; 12:9, 13; 13:4 ↩
28. Hosea 2:16 Heb Ishi ↩
29. Hosea 2:16 Is 54:5; Hos 2:7 ↩
30. Hosea 2:16 Also meaning husband in Heb, besides a name for false gods ↩
31. Hosea 2:17 Ex 23:13; Josh 23:7; Ps 16:4 ↩
32. Hosea 2:17 Or remembered ↩

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