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Hosea 2:15-17
Expanded Bible
Hosea 2:15-17
Expanded Bible
15 There I will give her back her vineyards,
and I will make the Valley of ·Trouble [L Achor; C see Josh. 7:1–26] a door of hope.
There she will ·respond [or sing] as ·when she was young [L in the days of her youth],
as when she came out of Egypt.”
16 The Lord says, “In the future she[a] will call me ‘my husband’;
no longer will she[b] call me ‘my baal [C “baal” can mean “husband,” “master,” or “Baal” (the Canaanite god); in this wordplay, Israel has replaced one husband (the Lord) with another (Baal)].’
17 I will ·never let her say [remove from her lips] the names of Baal again;
people won’t ·use [utter; invoke; or remember] their names anymore.
Footnotes
- Hosea 2:16 she Greek, Aramaic and Latin copies read “she.” Hebrew copies read “you.”
- Hosea 2:16 she Greek, Aramaic and Latin copies read “she.” Hebrew copies read “you.”
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