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Hosea 2:14 (CSB)

Therefore, I am going to persuade her,
lead her to the wilderness,
and speak tenderly to her.
 

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Hosea 2:15 (CSB)

There I will give her vineyards back to her
and make the Valley of Achor
into a gateway of hope.
There she will respond as she did
in the days of her youth,
as in the day she came out of the land of Egypt.
 

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Hosea 2:16 (CSB)

In that day—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
you will call me “my husband”
and no longer call me “my Baal.”
 

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Hosea 2:17 (CSB)

For I will remove the names of the Baals
from her mouth;
they will no longer be remembered by their names.
 

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Hosea 2:18 (CSB)

On that day I will make a covenant for them
with the wild animals, the birds of the sky,
and the creatures that crawl on the ground.
I will shatter bow, sword,
and weapons of war in the land
and will enable the people to rest securely.
 

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Hosea 2:19 (CSB)

I will take you to be my wife forever.
I will take you to be my wife in righteousness,
justice, love, and compassion.
 

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Hosea 2:20 (CSB)

I will take you to be my wife in faithfulness,
and you will know the Lord.
 

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Hosea 2:21 (CSB)

On that day I will respond—
this is the Lord’s declaration.
I will respond to the sky,
and it will respond to the earth.
 

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Hosea 2:22 (CSB)

The earth will respond to the grain,
the new wine, and the fresh oil,
and they will respond to Jezreel.
 

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Hosea 2:23 (CSB)

I will sow her in the land for myself,
and I will have compassion
on Lo-ruhamah;
I will say to Lo-ammi:
You are my people,
and he will say, “You are my God.”
 

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Hosea 3:1 (WEB)

Yahweh said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel,
though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.”
 

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Hosea 3 (WEB)

2 So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.
 

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Hosea 3 (WEB)

3 I said to her, “You shall stay with me many days. You shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man.
I will also be so toward you.”
 

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Hosea 3 (WEB)

4 For the children of Israel shall live many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone,
and without ephod or idols.
 

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Hosea 3 (WEB)

5 Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.
 

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Hosea 4:1 (NIV)

Hear the word of the Lord, you Israelites,
because the Lord has a charge to bring
against you who live in the land:
‘There is no faithfulness, no love,
no acknowledgment of God in the land.
 

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Hosea 4:2 (NIV)

There is only cursing, lying and murder,
stealing and adultery;
they break all bounds,
and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
 

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Hosea 4:3 (NIV)

Because of this the land dries up,
and all who live in it waste away;
the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky
and the fish in the sea are swept away.
 

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Hosea 4:4 (NIV)

‘But let no one bring a charge,
let no one accuse another,
for your people are like those
who bring charges against a priest.
 

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Hosea 4:5 (NIV)

You stumble day and night,
and the prophets stumble with you.
So I will destroy your mother –