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Hosea 2:15

Bible in Basic English 1965

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.

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And as if copying the evil ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, was a small thing for him, he took as his wife Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of Zidon, and became a servant and worshipper of Baal.

Then they had faith in his words; they gave him songs of praise.

A Song of the going up. Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young let Israel now say;

And Sharon will be a grass-land for the flocks, and the valley of Achor a resting-place for the herds: for my people whose hearts have been turned back to me.

And they will be building houses and living in them; planting vine-gardens and getting the fruit of them.

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Go and say in the ears of Jerusalem, The Lord says, I still keep the memory of your kind heart when you were young, and your love when you became my bride; how you went after me in the waste of sand, in an unplanted land.

For I am conscious of my thoughts about you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you hope at the end.

Will you not, from this time, make your prayer to me, crying, My father, you are the friend of my early years?

For the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, There will again be trading in houses and fields and vine-gardens in this land.

This I keep in mind, and because of this I have hope.

And in all your disgusting and false behaviour you had no memory of your early days, when you were uncovered and without clothing, stretched out in your blood.

But still I will keep in mind the agreement made with you in the days when you were young, and I will make with you an eternal agreement.

Now when I went past you, looking at you, I saw that your time was the time of love; and I put my skirts over you, covering your unclothed body: and I gave you my oath and made an agreement with you, says the Lord, and you became mine.

This is what the Lord has said: When I have got together the children of Israel from the peoples among whom they are wandering, and have been made holy among them before the eyes of the nations, then they will have rest in the land which is theirs, which I gave to my servant Jacob

And they will be safe there, building houses and planting vine-gardens and living without fear; when I have sent my punishments on all those who put shame on them round about them; and they will be certain that I am the Lord their God.

When Israel was a child he was dear to me; and I took my son out of Egypt.

And by a prophet the Lord made Israel come up out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was kept safe.

But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; I will give you tents for your living-places again as in the days of the holy meeting.

But I am the Lord your God, from the land of Egypt; you have knowledge of no other God and there is no saviour but me.

And I will make waste her vines and her fig-trees, of which she has said, These are the payments which my lovers have made to me; and I will make them a waste of trees, and the beasts of the field will take them for food.

And I will let the fate of my people Israel be changed, and they will be building up again the waste towns and living in them; they will again be planting vine-gardens and taking the wine for their drink; and they will make gardens and get the fruit of them.

And they will come back to you, O daughter of Zion, as prisoners of hope: today I say to you that I will give you back twice as much;

Then Israel gave voice to this song: Come up, O water-spring, let us make a song to it:

I am the door: if any man goes in through me he will have salvation, and will go in and go out, and will get food.

And when they came there, and had got the church together, they gave them an account of all the things which God had done through them, and how he had made open a door of faith to the Gentiles.

And over him they put a great mass of stones, which is there to this day; then the heat of the Lord's wrath was turned away. So that place was named, The Valley of Achor, to this day.

And the children of Israel did not keep in their minds the Lord their God, who had been their saviour from all their haters on every side;




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