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14 “So I am going to attract her;
    I will lead her into the desert
    and speak tenderly to her.
15 There I will give her back her vineyards,
    and I will make the Valley of Trouble a door of hope.
There she will respond as when she was young,
    as when she came out of Egypt.”

16 The Lord says, “In the future she will call me ‘my husband’;
    no longer will she call me ‘my baal.’[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2:16 baal Another Hebrew word for husband, but it was the same word as the false god Baal.

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