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Hosea 2:10-21 New King James Version (NKJV)

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

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

12. “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.

13. I will punish herFor 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.

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

15. 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.

16. “And it shall be, in that day,”Says the Lord,“That you will call Me ‘My Husband,’And no longer call Me ‘My Master,’

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

18. In that day I will make a covenant for themWith 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.

19. “I will betroth you to Me forever;Yes, I will betroth you to MeIn righteousness and justice,In lovingkindness and mercy;

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

21. “It shall come to pass in that dayThat I will answer,” says the Lord;“I will answer the heavens,And they shall answer the earth.

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