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she forgot,’ y is the utterance of
Jehovah.
14 “‘Therefore here I am prevailing
upon her, and I will cause
her to go into the wilderness, z
and I will speak to her heart. a
15 And I will give her her vine-
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CHAP. 2 yards from then onward, a and
the low plain of Achor b as an entrance
to hope; and she will certainly
answer there as in the days
of her youth c and as in the day
of her coming up out of the land
and I will heap up a stone
wall against her, a so that her
own roadways she will not find. b
7 And she will actually chase after
her passionate lovers, but she
will not overtake them; c and she
will certainly look for them, but
she will not find them. And she
will have to say, ‘I want to go and
return to my husband, d the first
one, e forIhaditbetteratthat
time than now.’ f 8 But she herself
did not recognize g that it was
I who had given to her the grain h
and the sweet wine and the oil,
and that I had made silver itself
abound for her, and gold, which
they made use of for Baal. i
9 “‘Therefore I shall turn
back and certainly take away my
grain in its time and my sweet
wine in its season, j and I will
snatch away my wool and my linen
for covering her nakedness. k
10 And now I shall uncover her
private parts to the eyes of her
passionate lovers, l and there will
be no man to snatch her out of
my hand. m 11 And I shall certainly
cause all her exultation, n
her festival, o her new moon p and
her sabbath and her every festal
season to cease. 12 And I will
lay desolate her vine q and her
fig tree, r of which she has said:
“They are a gift to me, which
mypassionatelovershavegiven
to me”; and I will set them as a
forest, s and the wild beast of the
field will certainly devour them.
13 And I will hold an accounting
t against her for the days of
the Baal images u to which she
kept making sacrificial smoke, v
when she kept decking herself
with her ring and her ornament w
and kept going after her passionate
lovers, x and I was the one that
a Job 3:23
La 3:7
b Job 19:8
c Isa 30:2
Ho 5:13
d Jer 31:18
Ho 5:15
Lu 15:18
e Eze 16:8
Eze 23:4
f De 32:13
Ne 9:25
Lu 15:17
g De 32:28
Isa 1:3
h Jer 44:17
Eze 16:19
i Ex 32:4
Jg 17:4
Isa 46:6
Ho 8:4
Ho 13:2
j Isa 17:11
Eze 16:27
k Eze 23:26
Zep 1:13
l Jer 13:26
Eze 16:37
Eze 23:29
m Ps 50:22
Ho 5:14
n Isa 24:8
Jer 7:34
Am 8:10
o 1Ki 12:32
Am 5:21
p Isa 1:13
q Ps 80:12
Isa 5:5
r Jer 5:17
Jer 8:13
s Isa 29:17
Jer 26:18
Mic 3:12
t Jer 23:2
Am 3:2
Zec 10:3
u Jg 3:7
1Ki 16:31
2Ki 10:28
v Jer 7:9
Jer 18:15
Ho 11:2
w Eze 23:40
x Jer 2:25
y Isa 17:10
Jer 2:32
Eze 22:12
z Eze 20:35
a Isa 40:2
Second Col.
a De 30:5
Isa 65:21
Jer 32:15
Eze 28:26
Am 9:14
b Jos 7:26
Isa 65:10
c Jer 2:2
Eze 16:22
d Ex 15:1
Ho 12:13
e Isa 54:5
Jer 3:14
f Ex 23:13
Jos 23:7
Zec 13:2
g Jer 10:11
h Isa 11:6
Eze 34:25
of Egypt. d 16 And it must occur
in that day,’ is the utterance
of Jehovah, ‘that you will call me
My husband, and you will no longer
call me My owner.’ e
17 “ ‘And I will remove the
names of the Baal images from
her mouth, f and they will no
longer be remembered by their
name. g 18 And for them I shall
certainly conclude a covenant in
that day in connection with the
wild beast of the field h and with
the flying creature of the heavens
and the creeping thing of
the ground, and the bow and the
sword and war I shall break out
of the land, i and I will make them
lie down in security. j 19 And I
will engage you to me for time indefinite,
k and I will engage you to
me in righteousness and in justice
and in loving-kindness and
in mercies. l 20 And I will engage
you to me in faithfulness;
and you will certainly know Jehovah.’
m
21 “‘And it must occur in that
day that I shall answer,’ is the utterance
of Jehovah, ‘I shall answer
the heavens, and they, for
their part, will answer the earth; n
22 and the earth, for its part, will
answer the grain o and the sweet
wine and the oil; and they, for
their part, will answer Jezre·el
[‘God will sow seed’]. p 23 And I
shall certainly sow her like seed
for me in the earth, q and I will
show mercy to her who was not
shown mercy, r and I will say to
those not my people: “You are my
people”; s and they, for their part,
will say: “You are my God.” ’ ” t
i Ps 46:9; Isa 2:4; Eze 39:9; Zec 9:10; j Le 26:5; Jer
23:6; Eze 34:25; Mic 4:4; k Jer 3:14; l Ps 85:10; Jer
4:2; Mic 7:18; m Isa 54:13; Jer 9:24; Jer 24:7; Jer
31:34; Eze 38:23; Heb 8:11; n De 28:12; Zec 8:12;
o Ps 72:16; p Ho 1:11; q Jer 31:27; Zec 10:9; r Ro
11:30; s Ro 9:25; 1Pe 2:10; t Ho 1:10; Zec 13:9.