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Hosea 2:14

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Therefore, I am going to persuade her, lead her to the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.

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The woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place prepared by God,  to be nourished there  for 1,260 days.


Therefore the Lord is waiting to show you mercy, and is rising up to show you compassion, for the Lord is a just God. All who wait patiently for him are happy.


The woman was given two wings of a great eagle,  so that she could fly from the serpent’s presence to her place in the wilderness, where she was nourished for a time, times, and half a time.


He became infatuated with Jacob’s daughter Dinah. He loved the young girl and spoke tenderly to her.


No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws   him, and I will raise him up on the last day.


Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her as she was on the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and like a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.


‘ “So I brought them out of the land of Egypt and led them into the wilderness.


‘However, look, the days are coming’   #– #the Lord’s declaration #– #‘when it will no longer be said, “As the Lord lives who brought the Israelites from the land of Egypt,”


‘Go and announce directly to Jerusalem that this is what the Lord says: I remember the loyalty of your youth, your love as a bride – how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.


Take me with you   #– #let’s hurry. Oh, that the king would bring  me to his chambers. We will rejoice and be glad in you; we will celebrate your caresses more than wine. It is only right that they adore you.


Then her husband got up and followed her to speak kindly to her  and bring her back. He had his servant with him and a pair of donkeys. So she brought him to her father’s house, and when the girl’s father saw him, he gladly welcomed him.


As for me, if I am lifted up   from the earth I will draw all people to myself.’


Indeed, he lured you from the jaws  of distress to a spacious and unconfined place. Your table was spread with choice food.


As I live #– #the declaration of the Lord God  #– #I will reign over you with a strong hand, an outstretched arm,  and outpoured wrath.


Writhe and cry out,  , Daughter Zion, like a woman in labour, for now you will leave the city and camp in the open fields. You will go to Babylon; there you will be rescued; there the Lord will redeem you from the grasp of your enemies!


Now I will tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.


‘This is what you are to say to him: “This is what the Lord says: ‘What I have built I am about to demolish, and what I have planted I am about to uproot   #– #the whole land!


All her carved images will be smashed  to pieces; all her wages  will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again for a prostitute.





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