Hosea 2:8-23 ▼

8 “Now she does not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, And multiplied silver and gold for her, Which they used for Baal.

9 Therefore, I will take back My grain at 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 uncover her lewdness In the sight of her lovers, And no one will deliver her out of My hand.

11 I will also cease all her joy, Her feasts, her new moons, her sabbaths, And all her appointed times.

12 And I will make desolate her vines and fig trees, Of which she said, ‘These are my wages Which my lovers have given me.’ And I will make them a forest, And the beasts of the field will devour them.

13 So I will visit the days of the Baals upon her When she used to offer offerings in smoke to them And adorn herself with her earrings and jewelry And go after her lovers, so that she forgot Me,” declares Yahweh.

14 “Therefore, behold, I will allure her And bring her into the wilderness And speak to her heart.

15 Then I will give her her vineyards from there And the valley of Achor as a door of hope. And she will sing there as in the days of her youth, As in the 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 Ishi And will no longer call Me Baali.

17 So I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth So that they will be remembered by their names no more.

18 And in that day I will cut a covenant for them With the beasts of the field, The birds of the sky, And the creeping things of the ground. And I will break the bow, the sword, and war from the land, And I will make them lie down in security.

19 And I will betroth you to Me forever; Indeed, I will betroth you to Me in righteousness and in justice, In lovingkindness and in compassion,

20 And I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness. Then you will know Yahweh.

21 “And it will be in that day, that I will answer,” declares Yahweh. “I will answer the heavens, and they will answer the earth,

22 And the earth will answer the grain, the new wine, and the oil, And they will answer Jezreel.

23 And I will sow her for Myself in the land. I will also have compassion on her who had not obtained compassion, And I will say to those who were not My people, ‘You are My people!’ And they will say, ‘You are my God!’”