25 The Lord Almighty will bless(A) them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people,(B) Assyria my handiwork,(C) and Israel my inheritance.(D)

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23 When they see among them their children,(A)
    the work of my hands,(B)
they will keep my name holy;(C)
    they will acknowledge the holiness of the Holy One(D) of Jacob,
    and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

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23 I will plant(A) her for myself in the land;
    I will show my love to the one I called ‘Not my loved one.[a](B)
I will say to those called ‘Not my people,[b]’ ‘You are my people’;(C)
    and they will say, ‘You are my God.(D)’”

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:23 Hebrew Lo-Ruhamah (see 1:6)
  2. Hosea 2:23 Hebrew Lo-Ammi (see 1:9)

24 even us, whom he also called,(A) not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?(B) 25 As he says in Hosea:

“I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people;
    and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,”[a](C)

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  1. Romans 9:25 Hosea 2:23

The Lord will vindicate(A) me;
    your love, Lord, endures forever(B)
    do not abandon(C) the works of your hands.(D)

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15 May you be blessed by the Lord,
    the Maker of heaven(A) and earth.

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For the Lord’s portion(A) is his people,
    Jacob his allotted inheritance.(B)

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Their descendants(A) will be known among the nations
    and their offspring among the peoples.
All who see them will acknowledge
    that they are a people the Lord has blessed.”(B)

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21 Then all your people will be righteous(A)
    and they will possess(B) the land forever.
They are the shoot I have planted,(C)
    the work of my hands,(D)
    for the display of my splendor.(E)

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27 “So they will put my name(A) on the Israelites, and I will bless them.”

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being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion(A) until the day of Christ Jesus.(B)

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Praise for Spiritual Blessings in Christ

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,(A) who has blessed us in the heavenly realms(B) with every spiritual blessing in Christ.

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15 Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything;(A) what counts is the new creation.(B)

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23 They will not labor in vain,(A)
    nor will they bear children doomed to misfortune;(B)
for they will be a people blessed(C) by the Lord,
    they and their descendants(D) with them.

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Yet you, Lord, are our Father.(A)
    We are the clay, you are the potter;(B)
    we are all the work of your hand.(C)

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11 “This is what the Lord says—
    the Holy One(A) of Israel, and its Maker:(B)
Concerning things to come,
    do you question me about my children,
    or give me orders about the work of my hands?(C)

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Know that the Lord is God.(A)
    It is he who made us,(B) and we are his[a];
    we are his people,(C) the sheep of his pasture.(D)

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  1. Psalm 100:3 Or and not we ourselves

The land yields its harvest;(A)
    God, our God, blesses us.(B)
May God bless us still,
    so that all the ends of the earth(C) will fear him.(D)

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10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God;(A) once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

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10 For we are God’s handiwork,(A) created(B) in Christ Jesus to do good works,(C) which God prepared in advance for us to do.

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29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,(A)

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24 Now when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel,(A) he did not resort to divination(B) as at other times, but turned his face toward the wilderness.(C)

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10 and have put on the new self,(A) which is being renewed(B) in knowledge in the image of its Creator.(C) 11 Here there is no Gentile or Jew,(D) circumcised or uncircumcised,(E) barbarian, Scythian, slave or free,(F) but Christ is all,(G) and is in all.

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