Hosea 2:12-18
New International Version
12 I will ruin her vines(A) and her fig trees,(B)
which she said were her pay from her lovers;(C)
I will make them a thicket,(D)
and wild animals will devour them.(E)
13 I will punish her for the days
she burned incense(F) to the Baals;(G)
she decked herself with rings and jewelry,(H)
and went after her lovers,(I)
but me she forgot,(J)”
declares the Lord.(K)
14 “Therefore I am now going to allure her;
I will lead her into the wilderness(L)
and speak tenderly to her.
15 There I will give her back her vineyards,
and will make the Valley of Achor[a](M) a door of hope.
There she will respond[b](N) as in the days of her youth,(O)
as in the day she came up out of Egypt.(P)
16 “In that day,” declares the Lord,
“you will call me ‘my husband’;(Q)
you will no longer call me ‘my master.[c]’
17 I will remove the names of the Baals from her lips;(R)
no longer will their names be invoked.(S)
18 In that day I will make a covenant for them
with the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky
and the creatures that move along the ground.(T)
Bow and sword and battle
I will abolish(U) from the land,
so that all may lie down in safety.(V)
Footnotes
- Hosea 2:15 Achor means trouble.
- Hosea 2:15 Or sing
- Hosea 2:16 Hebrew baal
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