Hosea 2:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁹ And I will take you for my wife forever; I will take you for my wife in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ And I will betroth you to Me forever; yes, I will betroth you to Me in righteousness and justice, in steadfast love, and in mercy.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in justice, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ I will take you for my wife forever; I will take you for my wife in righteousness and in justice, in devoted love, and in mercy.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ And I will betroth you to me forever, and I will betroth you to me in justice and judgment, and in mercy and compassion.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ And I will espouse thee to me for ever: and I will espouse thee to me in justice, and judgment, and in mercy, and in commiserations.

Hosea 2:19 Cross References

Psalm 85:10

Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet; righteousness and peace will kiss each other.

Isaiah 1:27

Zion shall be redeemed by justice, and those in her who repent, by righteousness.

Isaiah 54:14

In righteousness you shall be established; you shall be far from oppression; indeed, you shall not fear; and from terror; indeed, it shall not come near you.

Isaiah 54:5

For your Maker is your husband; the Lord of hosts is his name; the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth he is called.

Isaiah 54:6

For the Lord has called you like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, like the wife of a man’s youth when she is cast off, says your God.

Jeremiah 4:2

and if you swear, “As the Lord lives!” in truth, in justice, and in uprightness, then nations shall be blessed by you, and by you they shall boast.

Ezekiel 16:8

I passed by you again and looked on you; you were at the age for love. I spread the edge of my cloak over you and covered your nakedness: I pledged myself to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord God, and you became mine.

Ezekiel 39:29

and I will never again hide my face from them, when I pour out my spirit upon the house of Israel, says the Lord God.

Hosea 14:4

I will heal their disloyalty; I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from them.

Joel 3:20

But Judah shall be inhabited forever and Jerusalem to all generations.

Zechariah 13:2

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.

John 3:29

He who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom who stands and hears him rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice. For this reason my joy has been fulfilled.

Romans 7:4

In the same way, my brothers and sisters, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.

2 Corinthians 11:2

I feel a divine jealousy for you, for I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

Revelation 21:2

And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.