Hosea 2:16-23
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16 On that day, says the Lord, you will call me “my husband,” and no longer will you call me “my Baal.”[a] 17 For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be mentioned by name no more.(A) 18 I will make for you[b] a covenant on that day with the wild animals, the birds of the air, and the creeping things of the ground, and I will abolish[c] the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you[d] lie down in safety.(B) 19 And I will take you for my wife forever; I will take you for my wife in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.(C) 20 I will take you for my wife in faithfulness, and you shall know the Lord.(D)
21 On that day I will answer, says the Lord,
I will answer the heavens,
and they shall answer the earth,
22 and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil,
and they shall answer Jezreel,[e](E)
23 and I will sow him[f] for myself in the land.
And I will have pity on Lo-ruhamah,[g]
and I will say to Lo-ammi,[h] “You are my people,”
and he shall say, “You are my God.”(F)
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