“‘Later I passed by, and when I looked at you and saw that you were old enough for love, I spread the corner of my garment(A) over you and covered your naked body. I gave you my solemn oath and entered into a covenant(B) with you, declares the Sovereign Lord, and you became mine.(C)

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59 “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will deal with you as you deserve, because you have despised my oath by breaking the covenant.(A) 60 Yet I will remember the covenant(B) I made with you in the days of your youth,(C) and I will establish an everlasting covenant(D) with you. 61 Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed(E) when you receive your sisters, both those who are older than you and those who are younger. I will give them to you as daughters,(F) but not on the basis of my covenant with you. 62 So I will establish my covenant(G) with you, and you will know that I am the Lord.(H)

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16 “In that day,” declares the Lord,
    “you will call me ‘my husband’;(A)
    you will no longer call me ‘my master.[a]
17 I will remove the names of the Baals from her lips;(B)
    no longer will their names be invoked.(C)
18 In that day I will make a covenant for them
    with the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky
    and the creatures that move along the ground.(D)
Bow and sword and battle
    I will abolish(E) from the land,
    so that all may lie down in safety.(F)
19 I will betroth(G) you to me forever;
    I will betroth you in[b] righteousness and justice,(H)
    in[c] love and compassion.(I)
20 I will betroth you in[d] faithfulness,
    and you will acknowledge(J) the Lord.(K)

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:16 Hebrew baal
  2. Hosea 2:19 Or with
  3. Hosea 2:19 Or with
  4. Hosea 2:20 Or with

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