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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!'"

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So what do we do? Keep on sinning so God can keep on forgiving?

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What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?

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What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?

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Well then, should we keep on sinning so that God can show us more and more kindness and forgiveness?

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I should hope not! If we've left the country where sin is sovereign, how can we still live in our old house there?

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By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?

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Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?

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Of course not! Since we have died to sin, how can we continue to live in it?

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Or didn't you realize we packed up and left there for good? That is what happened in baptism. When we went under the water, we left the old country of sin behind; when we came up out of the water, we entered into the new country of grace--a new life in a new land! That's what baptism into the life of Jesus means.

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Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

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Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

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Or have you forgotten that when we became Christians and were baptized to become one with Christ Jesus, we died with him?

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When we are lowered into the water, it is like the burial of Jesus; when we are raised up out of the water, it is like the resurrection of Jesus.

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We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

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Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

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For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives.

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Each of us is raised into a light-filled world by our Father so that we can see where we're going in our new grace-sovereign country.

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If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection.

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For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,

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Since we have been united with him in his death, we will also be raised as he was.

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Could it be any clearer? Our old way of life was nailed to the Cross with Christ, a decisive end to that sin-miserable life--no longer at sin's every beck and call! What we believe is this:

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For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin--

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knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.

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Our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin.

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If we get included in Christ's sin-conquering death, we also get included in his life-saving resurrection.

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because anyone who has died has been freed from sin.

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For he who has died has been freed from sin.

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For when we died with Christ we were set free from the power of sin.

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We know that when Jesus was raised from the dead it was a signal of the end of death-as-the-end. Never again will death have the last word.

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Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.

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Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,

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And since we died with Christ, we know we will also share his new life.

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When Jesus died, he took sin down with him, but alive he brings God down to us.

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For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

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knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.

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We are sure of this because Christ rose from the dead, and he will never die again. Death no longer has any power over him.

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From now on, think of it this way: Sin speaks a dead language that means nothing to you; God speaks your mother tongue, and you hang on every word. You are dead to sin and alive to God. That's what Jesus did.

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The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.

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For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.

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He died once to defeat sin, and now he lives for the glory of God.

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That means you must not give sin a vote in the way you conduct your lives. Don't give it the time of day.

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In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

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Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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So you should consider yourselves dead to sin and able to live for the glory of God through Christ Jesus.

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Don't even run little errands that are connected with that old way of life. Throw yourselves wholeheartedly and full-time--remember, you've been raised from the dead!-into God's way of doing things.

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Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.

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Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

Rom.6.12

Do not let sin control the way you live; do not give in to its lustful desires.

Rom.6.13

Sin can't tell you how to live. After all, you're not living under that old tyranny any longer. You're living in the freedom of God.

Rom.6.13

Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness.

Rom.6.13

And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

Rom.6.13

Do not let any part of your body become a tool of wickedness, to be used for sinning. Instead, give yourselves completely to God since you have been given new life. And use your whole body as a tool to do what is right for the glory of God.

Rom.6.14

So, since we're out from under the old tyranny, does that mean we can live any old way we want? Since we're free in the freedom of God, can we do anything that comes to mind?

Rom.6.14

For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.

Rom.6.14

For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

Rom.6.14

Sin is no longer your master, for you are no longer subject to the law, which enslaves you to sin. Instead, you are free by God's grace.

Ps.87.1

He founded Zion on the Holy Mountain--

Ps.87.1

He has set his foundation on the holy mountain;

Ps.87.1

His foundation is in the holy mountains.

Ps.87.1

On the holy mountain stands the city founded by the LORD.

Ps.87.2

and oh, how GOD loves his home! Loves it far better than all the homes of Jacob put together!

Ps.87.2

the LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

Ps.87.2

The LORD loves the gates of Zion More than all the dwellings of Jacob.

Ps.87.2

He loves the city of Jerusalem more than any other city in Israel.

Ps.87.3

God's hometown--oh! everyone there is talking about you!

Ps.87.3

Glorious things are said of you, O city of God: Selah

Ps.87.3

Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God!Selah

Ps.87.3

O city of God, what glorious things are said of you!

Ps.87.4

I name them off, those among whom I'm famous: Egypt and Babylon, also Philistia, even Tyre, along with Cush. Word's getting around; they point them out: "This one was born again here!"

Ps.87.4

"I will record Rahab and Babylon among those who acknowledge me- Philistia too, and Tyre, along with Cush - and will say, 'This one was born in Zion.'"

Ps.87.4

"I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to those who know Me; Behold, O Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia: "This one was born there.'|"

Ps.87.4

I will record Egypt and Babylon among those who know me--also Philistia and Tyre, and even distant Ethiopia. They have all become citizens of Jerusalem!

Ps.87.5

The word's getting out on Zion: "Men and women, right and left, get born again in her!"

Ps.87.5

Indeed, of Zion it will be said, "This one and that one were born in her, and the Most High himself will establish her."

Ps.87.5

And of Zion it will be said, "This one and that one were born in her; And the Most High Himself shall establish her."

Ps.87.5

And it will be said of Jerusalem, "Everyone has become a citizen here." And the Most High will personally bless this city.

Ps.87.6

GOD registers their names in his book: "This one, this one, and this one--born again, right here."

Ps.87.6

The LORD will write in the register of the peoples: "This one was born in Zion." Selah

Ps.87.6

The LORD will record, When He registers the peoples: "This one was born there."Selah

Ps.87.6

When the LORD registers the nations, he will say, "This one has become a citizen of Jerusalem."

Ps.87.7

Singers and dancers give credit to Zion: "All my springs are in you!" A Korah prayer of Heman

Ps.87.7

As they make music they will sing, "All my fountains are in you."

Ps.87.7

Both the singers and the players on instruments say, "All my springs are in you."

Ps.87.7

At all the festivals, the people will sing, "The source of my life is in Jerusalem!"