Hosea 2:8-23

Hosea 2:8-23

[8] For she did not know  that I gave  her corn,  and wine,  and oil,  and multiplied  her silver  and gold,  which they prepared  for Baal.  [9] Therefore will I return,  and take away  my corn  in the time  thereof, and my wine  in the season  thereof, and will recover  my wool  and my flax  given to cover  her nakedness.  [10] And now will I discover  her lewdness  in the sight  of her lovers,  and none  shall deliver  her out of mine hand.  [11] I will also cause all her mirth  to cease,  her feast days,  her new moons,  and her sabbaths,  and all her solemn feasts.  [12] And I will destroy  her vines  and her fig trees,  whereof she hath said,  These are my rewards  that my lovers  have given  me: and I will make  them a forest,  and the beasts  of the field  shall eat  them. [13] And I will visit  upon her the days  of Baalim,  wherein she burned incense  to them, and she decked  herself with her earrings  and her jewels,  after  her lovers,  and forgat  me, saith  the LORD.  [14] Therefore, behold, I will allure  her into the wilderness,  and speak  comfortably  [15] And I will give  her her vineyards  from thence, and the valley  of Achor  for a door  of hope:  and she shall sing  there, as in the days  of her youth,  and as in the day  when she came up  out of the land  of Egypt.  [16] And it shall be at that day,  saith  the LORD,  that thou shalt call  me Ishi;  and shalt call  me no more Baali.  [17] For I will take away  the names  of Baalim  out of her mouth,  and they shall no more be remembered  by their name.  [18] And in that day  will I make  a covenant  for them with the beasts  of the field,  and with the fowls  of heaven,  and with the creeping things  of the ground:  and I will break  the bow  and the sword  and the battle  out of the earth,  and will make them to lie down  safely.  [19] And I will betroth  thee unto me for ever;  yea, I will betroth  thee unto me in righteousness,  and in judgment,  and in lovingkindness,  and in mercies.  [20] I will even betroth  thee unto me in faithfulness:  and thou shalt know  the LORD.  [21] And it shall come to pass in that day,  I will hear,  saith  the LORD,  I will hear  the heavens,  and they shall hear  the earth;  [22] And the earth  shall hear  the corn,  and the wine,  and the oil;  and they shall hear  Jezreel.  [23] And I will sow  her unto me in the earth;  and I will have mercy  and I will say  to them which were not my people,  and they shall say,  Thou art my God.