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Hosea 2:16 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali. "
Hosea 2:16
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Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably
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.
And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.
For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
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.
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Hosea 2:1
"Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah."
Hosea 2:2
"Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;"
Hosea 2:3
"Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst."
Hosea 2:4
"And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms."
Hosea 2:5
"For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink."
Hosea 2:6
"Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths."
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