Hos 2:14 For this cause I will make her come into the waste land and will say words of comfort to her.
Hos 2:15 And I will give her vine-gardens from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will give her answer there as in the days when she was young, and as in the time when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
Hos 2:16 And in that day, says the Lord, you will say to me, Ishi; and you will never again give me the name of Baali;
Hos 2:17 For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and never again will she say their names.
Hos 2:18 And in that day I will make an agreement for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven and the things which go low on the earth; I will put an end to the bow and the sword and war in all the land, and will make them take their rest in peace.
Hos 2:19 And I will take you as my bride for ever; truly, I will take you as my bride in righteousness and in right judging, in love and in mercies.
Hos 2:20 I will take you as my bride in good faith, and you will have knowledge of the Lord.
Hos 2:21 And it will be, in that day, says the Lord, that I will give an answer to the heavens, and the heavens to the earth;
Hos 2:22 And the earth will give its answer to the grain and the wine and the oil, and they will give an answer to Jezreel;
Hos 2:23 And I will put her as seed in the earth, and I will have mercy on her to whom no mercy was given; and I will say to those who were not my people, You are my people, and they will say, My God.
Hos 3:1 And the Lord said to me, Give your love again to a woman who has a lover and is false to her husband, even as the Lord has love for the children of Israel, though they are turned to other gods and are lovers of grape-cakes.
Hos 3:2 So I got her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a half of barley;
Hos 3:3 And I said to her, You are to be mine for a long space of time; you are not to be false to me, and no other man is to have you for his wife; and so will I be to you.
Hos 3:4 For the children of Israel will for a long time be without king and without ruler, without offerings and without pillars, and without ephod or images.
Hos 3:5 And after that, the children of Israel will come back and go in search of the Lord their God and David their king; and they will come in fear to the Lord and to his mercies in the days to come.
Hos 4:1 Give ear to the word of the Lord, O children of Israel; for the Lord has a cause against the people of this land, because there is no good faith in it, and no mercy and no knowledge of God in the land.
Hos 4:2 There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.
Hos 4:3 Because of this the land will be dry, and everyone living in it will be wasted away, with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven; even the fishes of the sea will be taken away.
Hos 4:4 Let no man go to law or make protests, for your people are like those who go to law with a priest.
Hos 4:5 You will not be able to keep on your feet by day, and by night the prophet will be falling down with you, and I will give your mother to destruction.
Hos 4:6 Destruction has overtaken my people because they have no kno"};
