Hosea 2:8-17
Legacy Standard Bible
8 “Now she does (A)not know that it was (B)I who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil,
And multiplied silver and gold for her,
Which they [a]used for Baal.
9 Therefore, I will (C)take back My grain at [b]harvest time
And My new wine in its season.
I will also deliver My wool and My flax from them
Given to cover her nakedness.
10 So now I will (D)uncover her lewdness
In the sight of her lovers,
And no one will deliver her out of My hand.
11 I will also (E)cease all her joy,
Her (F)feasts, her (G)new moons, her sabbaths,
And all her appointed times.
12 And I will (H)make desolate her vines and fig trees,
Of which she said, ‘These are my wages
Which my lovers have given me.’
And I will (I)make them a forest,
And the (J)beasts of the field will devour them.
13 So I will visit the (K)days of the Baals upon her
When she used to [c](L)offer offerings in smoke to them
And (M)adorn herself with her [d]earrings and jewelry
And go after her lovers, so that she (N)forgot Me,” declares Yahweh.
Yahweh’s Faithful Betrothal
14 “Therefore, behold, I will allure her
(O)And bring her into the wilderness
And speak to her heart.
15 Then I will give her her (P)vineyards from there
And (Q)the valley of Achor as a door of hope.
And she will [e](R)sing there as in the days of her youth,
As in the (S)day when she came up from the land of Egypt.
16 And it will be in that day,” declares Yahweh,
“That you will call Me [f](T)Ishi
And will no longer call Me [g]Baali.
17 So (U)I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth
So that they will be remembered by their names no more.
Footnotes
- Hosea 2:8 Or made into the
- Hosea 2:9 Lit its time
- Hosea 2:13 Or burn incense
- Hosea 2:13 Or nose rings
- Hosea 2:15 Or give answer
- Hosea 2:16 Lit my husband
- Hosea 2:16 Lit my master, my Baal
Hosea 11:2
Legacy Standard Bible
2 The more [a](A)they called them,
The more they went from [b]them;
They kept (B)sacrificing to the Baals
And (C)burning incense to graven images.
Footnotes
- Hosea 11:2 God’s prophets
- Hosea 11:2 God’s prophets
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