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Hosea 2:15

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I will return your vineyards, and then Trouble Valley will become Hopeful Valley. You will say “Yes” to me as you did in your youth, when leaving Egypt.

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He acted just like Jeroboam. Even worse, he married Jezebel the daughter of King Ethbaal of Sidon and started worshipping Baal.

Then your people trusted you and sang your praises.

Since the time I was young, enemies have often attacked! Let everyone in Israel say:

My people will worship me. Then the coastlands of Sharon and the land as far as Achor Valley will turn into pasture land where cattle and sheep will feed and rest.

My people will live in the houses they build; they will enjoy grapes from their own vineyards.

to go to Jerusalem and tell everyone that he had said: When you were my young bride, you loved me and followed me through the barren desert.

I will bless you with a future filled with hope—a future of success, not of suffering.

You call me your father or your long-lost friend;

I am the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, and I promise you that people will once again buy and sell houses, farms, and vineyards in this country.

Then I remember something that fills me with hope.

You were so busy sinning and being a prostitute that you refused to think about the days when you were young and were rolling around naked in your own blood.

But I remember the agreement I made with you when you were young, and so I will make you a promise that will last for ever.

When I saw you again, you were old enough to have sex. So I covered your naked body with my own robe. Then I solemnly promised that you would belong to me and that I, the LORD God, would take care of you.

The LORD God said: Some day I will gather the people of Israel from the nations where they are now scattered, and every nation will see that I am holy. The Israelites will once again live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob.

They will be safe and will build houses and plant vineyards. They will no longer be in danger, because I will punish their hateful neighbours. Israel will know that I am the LORD their God.

When Israel was a child, I loved him, and I called my son out of Egypt.

I sent the prophet Moses to lead Israel from Egypt and to keep them safe.

Israel, I, the LORD, am still your God, just as I have been since the time you were in Egypt. Now I will force you to live in tents once again, as you did in the desert.

I, the LORD, have been your God since the time you were in Egypt. I am the only God you know, the only one who can save.

She said, “My lovers gave me vineyards and fig trees as payment for sex.” Now I, the LORD, will ruin her vineyards and fig trees; they will become clumps of weeds eaten by wild animals.

I'll make Israel prosper again. You will rebuild your towns and live in them. You will drink wine from your own vineyards and eat the fruit you grow.

and offer you hope. Return to your fortress, because today I will reward you with twice what you had.

That's also the same well the Israelites sang about in this song: Let's celebrate! The well has given us water.

I am the gate. All who come in through me will be saved. Through me they will come and go and find pasture.

After arriving in Antioch, they called the church together. They told the people what God had helped them do and how he had made it possible for the Gentiles to believe.

They covered the remains with a big pile of rocks, which is still there. Then the LORD stopped being angry with Israel. That's how the place came to be called Trouble Valley.

The Israelites forgot that the LORD was their God, and that he had rescued them from the enemies who lived around them.




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