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Hosea 2:21 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" It will happen in that day, that I will respond,” says the LORD. “I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth; "
Hosea 2:21
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19 I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.
20 I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know the LORD.
21 It will happen in that day, that I will respond,” says the LORD. “I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth;
22 and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; and they will respond to Jezreel.
23 I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘You are My God!’”
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Hosea 2:1
"“Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’ and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’"
Hosea 2:2
"Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;"
Hosea 2:3
"lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst."
Hosea 2:4
"Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy, for they are children of unfaithfulness."
Hosea 2:5
"For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’"
Hosea 2:6
"Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way."
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