Hosea 2:14-17

International Children’s Bible

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

¹⁶The Lord says, “Then she will call me ‘my husband.’
She will no longer call me ‘my baal.’^[b]
¹⁷I will never let her say the names of Baal again.
Then people won’t use their names anymore.

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Footnotes

2:15 Achor This name in Hebrew means “trouble.” It refers here to punishment as the way to blessing.
2:16 baal Another Hebrew word for husband. But it was the same word as the false god Baal.