Hosea 2:8-17 — Legacy Standard Bible

⁸“Now she does ^anot know that it was ^bI who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil,And multiplied silver and gold for her,Which they ¹used for Baal.⁹“Therefore, I will ^atake back My grain at ¹harvest timeAnd My new wine in its season.I will also deliver My wool and My flax from themGiven to cover her nakedness.¹⁰“So now I will ^auncover her lewdnessIn the sight of her lovers,And no one will deliver her out of My hand.¹¹“I will also ^acease all her joy,Her ^bfeasts, her ^cnew moons, her sabbaths,And all her appointed times.¹²“And I will ^amake desolate her vines and fig trees,Of which she said, ‘These are my wagesWhich my lovers have given me.’And I will ^bmake them a forest,And the ^cbeasts of the field will devour them.¹³“So I will visit the ^adays of the Baals upon herWhen she used to ¹^,^boffer offerings in smoke to themAnd ^cadorn herself with her ²earrings and jewelryAnd go after her lovers, so that she ^dforgot Me,” declares Yahweh.

Yahweh’s Faithful Betrothal

¹⁴“Therefore, behold, I will allure her^aAnd bring her into the wildernessAnd speak to her heart.¹⁵“Then I will give her her ^avineyards from thereAnd ^bthe valley of Achor as a door of hope.And she will ¹^,^csing there as in the days of her youth,As in the ^dday when she came up from the land of Egypt.¹⁶“And it will be in that day,” declares Yahweh,“That you will call Me ¹^,^aIshiAnd will no longer call Me ²Baali.¹⁷“So ^aI will remove the names of the Baals from her mouthSo that they will be remembered by their names no more.