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15 There I will restore her vineyards to her,
    and the Valley of Achor will become a doorway to hope.
There she will respond as she did in her youth,
    when she came up from Egypt.”

The Restoration of Israel

16 “It will come about at that time,”
    declares the Lord,
“that you will address me as ‘My husband,’
    and you will no longer call me ‘My master’.[a]
17 I will remove the names of the Baals[b] from her vocabulary[c]
    they will not be remembered by their names anymore.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:16 Heb. baali, a word play alluding to the Canaanite deity of a similar name
  2. Hosea 2:17 I.e. Canaanite deities
  3. Hosea 2:17 Lit. mouth