Hosea 2:16-3:5

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁶“And in that day, says the Lord, you will call me, ‘My husband,’ and no longer will you call me, ‘My Ba′al.’ ¹⁷For I will remove the names of the Ba′als from her mouth, and they shall be mentioned by name no more. ¹⁸And I will make for you^[a] a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the creeping things of the ground; and I will abolish^[b] the bow, the sword, and war from the land; and I will make you lie down in safety. ¹⁹And I will betroth you to me for ever; I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love, and in mercy. ²⁰I will betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know the Lord.

²¹“And in that day, says the Lord,
    I will answer the heavens
    and they shall answer the earth;
²²and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil,
    and they shall answer Jezreel;^[c]
²³    and I will sow him^[d] for myself in the land.
And I will have pity on Not pitied,
    and I will say to Not my people, ‘You are my people’;
    and he shall say, ‘Thou art my God.’”

Further Assurances of God’s Redeeming Love

3 And the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is beloved of a paramour and is an adulteress; even as the Lord loves the people of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.” ²So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley. ³And I said to her, “You must dwell as mine for many days; you shall not play the harlot, or belong to another man; so will I also be to you.” ⁴For the children of Israel shall dwell many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or teraphim. ⁵Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and they shall come in fear to the Lord and to his goodness in the latter days.

Footnotes

Hosea 2:18 Heb them
Hosea 2:18 Heb break
Hosea 2:22 That is God sows
Hosea 2:23 Cn: Heb her

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