Hosea 2:14

Good News Translation

So I am going to take her into the desert again; there I will win her back with words of love.

Cross References

Genesis 34:3

But he found the young woman so attractive that he fell in love with her and tried to win her affection.

Job 36:16

God brought you out of trouble, and let you enjoy security; your table was piled high with food.

Song of Solomon 1:4

Take me with you, and we'll run away; be my king and take me to your room. We will be happy together, drink deep, and lose ourselves in love. No wonder all women love you!

Isaiah 30:18

And yet the Lord is waiting to be merciful to you. He is ready to take pity on you because he always does what is right. Happy are those who put their trust in the Lord.

Isaiah 5:5

“Here is what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge around it, break down the wall that protects it, and let wild animals eat it and trample it down.

Jeremiah 16:14

The Lord says, “The time is coming when people will no longer swear by me as the living God who brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

Jeremiah 2:2

to proclaim this message to everyone in Jerusalem. “I remember how faithful you were when you were young, how you loved me when we were first married; you followed me through the desert, through a land that had not been planted.

Jeremiah 45:4

“But I, the Lord, am tearing down what I have built and pulling up what I have planted. I will do this to the entire earth.

Ezekiel 20:10

“And so I led them out of Egypt into the desert.

Ezekiel 20:33

“As surely as I, the Sovereign Lord, am the living God, I warn you that in my anger I will rule over you with a strong hand, with all my power.

Hosea 2:3

If she does not, I will strip her as naked as she was on the day she was born. I will make her like a dry and barren land, and she will die of thirst.

Micah 1:7

All its precious idols will be smashed to pieces, everything given to its temple prostitutes will be destroyed by fire, and all its images will become a desolate heap. Samaria acquired these things for its fertility rites, and now her enemies will carry them off for temple prostitutes elsewhere.”

Micah 4:10

Twist and groan, people of Jerusalem, like a woman giving birth, for now you will have to leave the city and live in the open country. You will have to go to Babylon, but there the Lord will save you from your enemies.

John 12:32

When I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to me.” (

John 6:44

People cannot come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them to me; and I will raise them to life on the last day.

Revelation 12:14

She was given the two wings of a large eagle in order to fly to her place in the desert, where she will be taken care of for three and a half years, safe from the dragon's attack.

Revelation 12:6

The woman fled to the desert, to a place God had prepared for her, where she will be taken care of for 1,260 days.

Judges 19:3

Then the man decided to go after her and try to persuade her to return to him. He took his servant and two donkeys with him. The woman showed the Levite into the house, and when her father saw him, he gave him a hearty greeting.