Ho:2:14: Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
Ho:2:15: 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.
Ho:2:16: And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.
Ho:2:17: For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
Ho:2:18: 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.
Ho:2:19: 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.
Ho:2:20: I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.
Ho:2:21: 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;
Ho:2:22: And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.
Ho:2:23: And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.
Chapter 3
Ho:3:1: Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.
Ho:3:2: So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
Ho:3:3: And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man: so will I also be for thee.
Ho:3:4: For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:
Ho:3:5: Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.
Chapter 4
Ho:4:1: Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
Ho:4:2: By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
Ho:4:3: Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
Ho:4:4: Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
Ho:4:5: Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.
Ho:4:6: My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Ho:4:7: As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.
Ho:4:8: They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
Ho:4:9: And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.
Ho:4:10: For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.
Ho:4:11: Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
Ho:4:12: My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
