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This is God's Message to Hosea son of Beeri. It came to him during the royal reigns of Judah's kings Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. This was also the time that Jeroboam son of Joash was king over Israel.

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The word of the LORD that came to Hosea son of Beeri during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and during the reign of Jeroboam son of Jehoash king of Israel:

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The word of the LORD that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

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The LORD gave these messages to Hosea son of Beeri during the years when Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah were kings of Judah, and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel.

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The first time GOD spoke to Hosea he said: "Find a whore and marry her. Make this whore the mother of your children. And here's why: This whole country has become a whorehouse, unfaithful to me, GOD."

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When the LORD began to speak through Hosea, the LORD said to him, "Go, take to yourself an adulterous wife and children of unfaithfulness, because the land is guilty of the vilest adultery in departing from the LORD."

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When the LORD began to speak by Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea: "Go, take yourself a wife of harlotry And children of harlotry, For the land has committed great harlotry By departing from the LORD."

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When the LORD first began speaking to Israel through Hosea, he said to him, "Go and marry a prostitute, so some of her children will be born to you from other men. This will illustrate the way my people have been untrue to me, openly committing adultery against the LORD by worshiping other gods."

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Hosea did it. He picked Gomer daughter of Diblaim. She got pregnant and gave him a son.

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So he married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

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So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

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So Hosea married Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she became pregnant and gave Hosea a son.

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Then GOD told him: "Name him Jezreel. It won't be long now before I'll make the people of Israel pay for the massacre at Jezreel. I'm calling it quits on the kingdom of Israel.

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Then the LORD said to Hosea, "Call him Jezreel, because I will soon punish the house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.

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Then the LORD said to him: "Call his name Jezreel, For in a little while I will avenge the bloodshed of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, And bring an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.

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And the LORD said, "Name the child Jezreel, for I am about to punish King Jehu's dynasty to avenge the murders he committed at Jezreel.

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Payday is coming! I'm going to chop Israel's bows and arrows into kindling in the valley of Jezreel." [JC]

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In that day I will break Israel's bow in the Valley of Jezreel."

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It shall come to pass in that day That I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel."

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In fact, I will put an end to Israel's independence by breaking its military power in the Jezreel Valley."

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Gomer got pregnant again. This time she had a daughter. GOD told Hosea: "Name this one No-Mercy. I'm fed up with Israel. I've run out of mercy. There's no more forgiveness.

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Gomer conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. Then the LORD said to Hosea, "Call her Lo-Ruhamah, for I will no longer show love to the house of Israel, that I should at all forgive them.

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And she conceived again and bore a daughter. Then God said to him: "Call her name Lo-Ruhamah, For I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, But I will utterly take them away.

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Soon Gomer became pregnant again and gave birth to a daughter. And the LORD said to Hosea, "Name your daughter Lo-ruhamah--`Not loved'--for I will no longer show love to the people of Israel or forgive them.

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Judah's another story. I'll continue having mercy on them. I'll save them. It will be their GOD who saves them, Not their armaments and armies, not their horsepower and manpower." [JC]

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Yet I will show love to the house of Judah; and I will save them-not by bow, sword or battle, or by horses and horsemen, but by the LORD their God."

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Yet I will have mercy on the house of Judah, Will save them by the LORD their God, And will not save them by bow, Nor by sword or battle, By horses or horsemen."

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But I, the LORD their God, will show love to the people of Judah. I will personally free them from their enemies without any help from weapons or armies."

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After Gomer had weaned No-Mercy, she got pregnant yet again and had a son.

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After she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, Gomer had another son.

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Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived and bore a son.

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After Gomer had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she again became pregnant and gave birth to a second son.

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GOD said: "Name him Nobody. You've become nobodies to me, and I, GOD, am a nobody to you.

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Then the LORD said, "Call him Lo-Ammi, for you are not my people, and I am not your God.

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Then God said: "Call his name Lo-Ammi, For you are not My people, And I will not be your God.

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And the LORD said, "Name him Lo-ammi--`Not my people'--for Israel is not my people, and I am not their God.

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"But down the road the population of Israel is going to explode past counting, like sand on the ocean beaches. In the very place where they were once named Nobody, they will be named God's Somebody.

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"Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.'

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"Yet the number of the children of Israel Shall be as the sand of the sea, Which cannot be measured or numbered. And it shall come to pass In the place where it was said to them, "You are not My people,' There it shall be said to them, "You are sons of the living God.'

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Yet the time will come when Israel will prosper and become a great nation. In that day its people will be like the sands of the seashore--too many to count! Then, at the place where they were told, `You are not my people,' it will be said, `You are children of the living God.'

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Everybody in Judah and everybody in Israel will be assembled as one people. They'll choose a single leader. There'll be no stopping them--a great day in Jezreel! [JC]

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The people of Judah and the people of Israel will be reunited, and they will appoint one leader and will come up out of the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.

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Then the children of Judah and the children of Israel Shall be gathered together, And appoint for themselves one head; And they shall come up out of the land, For great will be the day of Jezreel!

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Then the people of Judah and Israel will unite under one leader, and they will return from exile together. What a day that will be--the day of Jezreel--when God will again plant his people in his land. 1In that day you will call your brothers Ammi--`My people.' And you will call your sisters Ruhamah--`The ones I love.'

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"Rename your brothers "God's Somebody.' Rename your sisters "All Mercy.'

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"Say of your brothers, 'My people,' and of your sisters, 'My loved one.'

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Say to your brethren, "My people,' And to your sisters, "Mercy is shown.'

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Verses 2:1-23 are numbered 2:3-25 in Hebrew text. For more Info, click https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hosea+2&version=NLT

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"Haul your mother into court. Accuse her! She's no longer my wife. I'm no longer her husband. Tell her to quit dressing like a whore, displaying her breasts for sale.

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"Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adulterous look from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.

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"Bring charges against your mother, bring charges; For she is not My wife, nor am I her Husband! Let her put away her harlotries from her sight, And her adulteries from between her breasts;

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"But now, call Israel to account, for she is no longer my wife, and I am no longer her husband. Tell her to take off her garish makeup and suggestive clothing and to stop playing the prostitute.

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If she refuses, I'll rip off her clothes and expose her, naked as a newborn. I'll turn her skin into dried-out leather, her body into a badlands landscape, a rack of bones in the desert.

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Otherwise I will strip her naked and make her as bare as on the day she was born; I will make her like a desert, turn her into a parched land, and slay her with thirst.

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Lest I strip her naked And expose her, as in the day she was born, And make her like a wilderness, And set her like a dry land, And slay her with thirst.

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If she doesn't, I will strip her as naked as she was on the day she was born. I will leave her to die of thirst, as in a desert or a dry and barren wilderness.

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I'll have nothing to do with her children, born one and all in a whorehouse.

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I will not show my love to her children, because they are the children of adultery.

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"I will not have mercy on her children, For they are the children of harlotry.

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And I will not love her children as I would my own because they are not my children! They were conceived in adultery.

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Face it: Your mother's been a whore, bringing bastard children into the world. She said, "I'm off to see my lovers! They'll wine and dine me, Dress and caress me, perfume and adorn me!'

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Their mother has been unfaithful and has conceived them in disgrace. She said, 'I will go after my lovers, who give me my food and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my drink.'

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For their mother has played the harlot; She who conceived them has behaved shamefully. For she said, "I will go after my lovers, Who give me my bread and my water, My wool and my linen, My oil and my drink.'

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For their mother is a shameless prostitute and became pregnant in a shameful way. She said, `I'll run after other lovers and sell myself to them for food and drink, for clothing of wool and linen, and for olive oil.'

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But I'll fix her: I'll dump her in a field of thistles, then lose her in a dead-end alley.

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Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.

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"Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, And wall her in, So that she cannot find her paths.

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"But I will fence her in with thornbushes. I will block the road to make her lose her way.

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She'll go on the hunt for her lovers but not bring down a single one. She'll look high and low but won't find a one. Then she'll say, "I'm going back to my husband, the one I started out with. That was a better life by far than this one.'

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She will chase after her lovers but not catch them; she will look for them but not find them. Then she will say, 'I will go back to my husband as at first, for then I was better off than now.'

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She will chase her lovers, But not overtake them; Yes, she will seek them, but not find them. Then she will say, "I will go and return to my first husband, For then it was better for me than now.'

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When she runs after her lovers, she won't be able to catch up with them. She will search for them but not find them. Then she will think, `I might as well return to my husband because I was better off with him than I am now.'

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She didn't know that it was I all along who wined and dined and adorned her, That I was the one who dressed her up in the big-city fashions and jewelry that she wasted on wild Baal-orgies.

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She has not acknowledged that I was the one who gave her the grain, the new wine and oil, who lavished on her the silver and gold- which they used for Baal.

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For she did not know That I gave her grain, new wine, and oil, And multiplied her silver and gold-- Which they prepared for Baal.

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She doesn't realize that it was I who gave her everything she has--the grain, the wine, the olive oil. Even the gold and silver she used in worshiping the god Baal were gifts from me!

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I'm about to bring her up short: No more wining and dining! Silk lingerie and gowns are a thing of the past.

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"Therefore I will take away my grain when it ripens, and my new wine when it is ready. I will take back my wool and my linen, intended to cover her nakedness.

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"Therefore I will return and take away My grain in its time And My new wine in its season, And will take back My wool and My linen, Given to cover her nakedness.

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"But now I will take back the wine and ripened grain I generously provided each harvest season. I will take away the linen and wool clothing I gave her to cover her nakedness.

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I'll expose her genitals to the public. All her fly-by-night lovers will be helpless to help her.

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So now I will expose her lewdness before the eyes of her lovers; no one will take her out of my hands.

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Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, And no one shall deliver her from My hand.

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I will strip her naked in public, while all her lovers look on. No one will be able to rescue her from my hands.

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Party time is over. I'm calling a halt to the whole business, her wild weekends and unholy holidays.

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I will stop all her celebrations: her yearly festivals, her New Moons, her Sabbath days-all her appointed feasts.

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I will also cause all her mirth to cease, Her feast days, Her New Moons, Her Sabbaths-- All her appointed feasts.

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I will put an end to her annual festivals, her new moon celebrations, and her Sabbath days--all her appointed festivals.

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I'll wreck her sumptuous gardens and ornamental fountains, of which she bragged, "Whoring paid for all this!' They will soon be dumping grounds for garbage, feeding grounds for stray dogs and cats.

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I will ruin her vines and her fig trees, which she said were her pay from her lovers; I will make them a thicket, and wild animals will devour them.

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"And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, Of which she has said, "These are my wages that my lovers have given me.' So I will make them a forest, And the beasts of the field shall eat them.

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I will destroy her vineyards and orchards, things she claims her lovers gave her. I will let them grow into tangled thickets, where only wild animals will eat the fruit.

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I'll make her pay for her indulgence in promiscuous religion--all that sensuous Baal worship And all the promiscuous sex that went with it, stalking her lovers, dressed to kill, And not a thought for me." GOD's Message!

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I will punish her for the days she burned incense to the Baals; she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers, but me she forgot," declares the LORD.

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I will punish her For the days of the Baals to which she burned incense. She decked herself with her earrings and jewelry, And went after her lovers; But Me she forgot," says the LORD.

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I will punish her for all the times she deserted me, when she burned incense to her images of Baal, put on her earrings and jewels, and went out looking for her lovers," says the LORD.

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"And now, here's what I'm going to do: I'm going to start all over again. I'm taking her back out into the wilderness where we had our first date, and I'll court her.

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"Therefore I am now going to allure her; I will lead her into the desert and speak tenderly to her.

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"Therefore, behold, I will allure her, Will bring her into the wilderness, And speak comfort to her.

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"But then I will win her back once again. I will lead her out into the desert and speak tenderly to her there.

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I'll give her bouquets of roses. I'll turn Heartbreak Valley into Acres of Hope. She'll respond like she did as a young girl, those days when she was fresh out of Egypt. [JC]

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There I will give her back her vineyards, and will make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. There she will sing as in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.

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I will give her her vineyards from there, And the Valley of Achor as a door of hope; She shall sing there, As in the days of her youth, As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.

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I will return her vineyards to her and transform the Valley of Trouble into a gateway of hope. She will give herself to me there, as she did long ago when she was young, when I freed her from her captivity in Egypt.

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"At that time"--this is GOD's Message still--"you'll address me, "Dear husband!' Never again will you address me, "My slave-master!'

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"In that day," declares the LORD, "you will call me 'my husband'; you will no longer call me 'my master. '

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"And it shall be, in that day," Says the LORD, "That you will call Me "My Husband,' And no longer call Me "My Master,'

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"In that coming day," says the LORD, "you will call me `my husband' instead of `my master.'

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I'll wash your mouth out with soap, get rid of all the dirty false-god names, not so much as a whisper of those names again.

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I will remove the names of the Baals from her lips; no longer will their names be invoked.

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For I will take from her mouth the names of the Baals, And they shall be remembered by their name no more.

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O Israel, I will cause you to forget your images of Baal; even their names will no longer be spoken.

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At the same time I'll make a peace treaty between you and wild animals and birds and reptiles, And get rid of all weapons of war. Think of it! Safe from beasts and bullies!

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In that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that move along the ground. Bow and sword and battle I will abolish from the land, so that all may lie down in safety.

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In that day I will make a covenant for them With the beasts of the field, With the birds of the air, And with the creeping things of the ground. Bow and sword of battle I will shatter from the earth, To make them lie down safely.

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At that time I will make a covenant with all the wild animals and the birds and the animals that scurry along the ground so that they will not harm you. I will remove all weapons of war from the land, all swords and bows, so you can live unafraid in peace and safety.

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And then I'll marry you for good--forever! I'll marry you true and proper, in love and tenderness.

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I will betroth you to me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in love and compassion.

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"I will betroth you to Me forever; Yes, I will betroth you to Me In righteousness and justice, In lovingkindness and mercy;

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I will make you my wife forever, showing you righteousness and justice, unfailing love and compassion.

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Yes, I'll marry you and neither leave you nor let you go. You'll know me, GOD, for who I really am. [JC]

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I will betroth you in faithfulness, and you will acknowledge the LORD.

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I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness, And you shall know the LORD.

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I will be faithful to you and make you mine, and you will finally know me as LORD.

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"On the very same day, I'll answer"--this is GOD's Message--"I'll answer the sky, sky will answer earth,

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"In that day I will respond," declares the LORD - "I will respond to the skies, and they will respond to the earth;

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"It shall come to pass in that day That I will answer," says the LORD; "I will answer the heavens, And they shall answer the earth.

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"In that day," says the LORD, "I will answer the pleading of the sky for clouds, which will pour down water on the earth in answer to its cries for rain.

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Earth will answer grain and wine and olive oil, and they'll all answer Jezreel.

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

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The earth shall answer With grain, With new wine, And with oil; They shall answer Jezreel.

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Then the earth will answer the thirsty cries of the grain, the grapes, and the olive trees for moisture. And the whole grand chorus will sing together, `Jezreel'--`God plants!'

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I'll plant her in the good earth. I'll have mercy on No-Mercy. I'll say to Nobody, "You're my dear Somebody,' and he'll say "You're my God!'"

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I will plant her for myself in the land; I will show my love to the one I called 'Not my loved one. 'I will say to those called 'Not my people, You are my people'; and they will say, 'You are my God.'"

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Then I will sow her for Myself in the earth, And I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; Then I will say to those who were not My people, "You are My people!' And they shall say, "You are my God!"'

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"At that time I will plant a crop of Israelites and raise them for myself! I will show love to those I called `Not loved.' And to those I called `Not my people,' I will say, `Now you are my people.' Then they will reply, `You are our God!'"