Those who choose another god multiply their sorrows; their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out or take their names upon my lips.
Hosea 2:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be mentioned by name no more. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For I will take away the names of Baalim [the Baals] out of her mouth, and they shall no more be mentioned or seriously remembered by their name. American Standard Version (1901) For I will take away the names of the Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be mentioned by their name. Common English Bible I will take away the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they will not be mentioned by name anymore. Catholic Public Domain Version And I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and she will no longer remember their name. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and she shall no more remember their name. |
Those who choose another god multiply their sorrows; their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out or take their names upon my lips.
Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the Lord: “I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; horse and rider he has thrown into the sea.
Be attentive to all that I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods; do not let them be heard on your lips.
Thus shall you say to them: The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.
Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord: I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
On that day, says the Lord of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no more, and also I will remove from the land the prophets and the unclean spirit.
so that you may not be mixed with these nations left here among you, or make mention of the names of their gods, or swear by them, or serve them, or bow yourselves down to them,
and raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Then the Lord turned from his burning anger. Therefore that place to this day is called the Valley of Achor.