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Hosea 2:16

Verse 16 of 23. The 2nd of 14 chapters in Hosea, in The Minor Prophets.

12I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me,’ and I will make them a forest, and the animals of the field shall eat them.

13I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers and forgot me,” says the LORD.

14“Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.

15I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

16It will be in that day,” says the LORD, “that you will call me ‘my husband,’ and no longer call me ‘my master.’

17For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by name.

18In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, and will make them lie down safely.

19I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.

20I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know the LORD.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.