14 “Return, you faithless children”(A)—this is the Lord’s declaration—“for I am your master,(B) and I will take you,(C) one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

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14 “Return,(A) faithless people,” declares the Lord, “for I am your husband.(B) I will choose you—one from a town and two from a clan—and bring you to Zion.

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14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

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19 I will take you to be My wife forever.(A)
I will take you to be My wife in righteousness,
justice, love, and compassion.(B)

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19 I will betroth(A) you to me forever;
    I will betroth you in[a] righteousness and justice,(B)
    in[b] love and compassion.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:19 Or with
  2. Hosea 2:19 Or with

19 And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.

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