“‘Then I passed by you and saw you, and you were indeed at the age for love. So I spread the edge of my garment over you and covered your nakedness.(A) I pledged myself to you,(B) entered into a covenant with you—this is the declaration of the Lord God—and you became mine.(C)

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“‘Later I passed by, and when I looked at you and saw that you were old enough for love, I spread the corner of my garment(A) over you and covered your naked body. I gave you my solemn oath and entered into a covenant(B) with you, declares the Sovereign Lord, and you became mine.(C)

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60 But I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish a permanent covenant with you.(A)

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60 Yet I will remember the covenant(A) I made with you in the days of your youth,(B) and I will establish an everlasting covenant(C) with you.

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15 There I will give her vineyards back to her(A)
and make the Valley of Achor[a](B)
into a gateway of hope.
There she will respond as she did
in the days of her youth,(C)
as in the day she came out of the land of Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:15 = Trouble

15 There I will give her back her vineyards,
    and will make the Valley of Achor[a](A) a door of hope.
There she will respond[b](B) as in the days of her youth,(C)
    as in the day she came up out of Egypt.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:15 Achor means trouble.
  2. Hosea 2:15 Or sing

But I have this against you: You have abandoned the love you had at first.(A)

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Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first.(A)

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