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Hosea 2:11-20 English Standard Version (ESV)

11. And I will put an end to all her mirth,her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths,and all her appointed feasts.

12. And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she said,‘These are my wages,which my lovers have given me.’I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall devour them.

13. And I will punish her for the feast days of the Baalswhen she burned offerings to themand adorned herself with her ring and jewelry,and went after her loversand forgot me, declares the Lord.

14. “Therefore, behold, I will allure her,and bring her into the wilderness,and speak tenderly to her.

15. And there I will give her her vineyardsand make the Valley of Achor a door of hope.And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth,as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.

16. “And in that day, declares the Lord, you will call me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer will you call me ‘My Baal.’

17. For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more.

18. And I will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground. And I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety.

19. And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.

20. I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the Lord.

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