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Hosea 1:2
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Hosea 1:2
English Standard Version
Hosea's Wife and Children
2 When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, (A)“Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have (B)children of whoredom, for (C)the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.”
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Hosea 2:14
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Hosea 2:14
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The Lord's Mercy on Israel
14 “Therefore, behold, I will allure her,
and (A)bring her into the wilderness,
and (B)speak tenderly to her.
Joel 1:15
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Joel 1:15
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15 Alas for the day!
(A)For the day of the Lord is near,
and as destruction from the Almighty[a] it comes.
Footnotes
- Joel 1:15 Destruction sounds like the Hebrew for Almighty
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The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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