Hosea 2:23

Good News Translation

I will establish my people in the land and make them prosper. I will show love to those who were called “Unloved,” and to those who were called “Not-My-People” I will say, “You are my people,” and they will answer, “You are our God.”

Cross References

Psalm 118:28

You are my God, and I give you thanks; I will proclaim your greatness.

Psalm 22:27

All nations will remember the Lord. From every part of the world they will turn to him; all races will worship him.

Psalm 68:31

Ambassadors will come from Egypt; the Ethiopians will raise their hands in prayer to God.

Psalm 72:16

May there be plenty of grain in the land; may the hills be covered with crops, as fruitful as those of Lebanon. May the cities be filled with people, like fields full of grass.

Song of Solomon 2:16

My lover is mine, and I am his. He feeds his flock among the lilies

Isaiah 44:5

“One by one, people will say, ‘I am the Lord's.’ They will come to join the people of Israel. They each will mark the name of the Lord on their arms and call themselves one of God's people.”

Jeremiah 16:19

Lord, you are the one who protects me and gives me strength; you help me in times of trouble. Nations will come to you from the ends of the earth and say, “Our ancestors had nothing but false gods, nothing but useless idols.

Jeremiah 31:27

“I, the Lord, say that the time is coming when I will fill the land of Israel and Judah with people and animals.

Jeremiah 32:38

Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.

Jeremiah 33:26

And just as surely as I have done this, so I will maintain my covenant with Jacob's descendants and with my servant David. I will choose one of David's descendants to rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will be merciful to my people and make them prosperous again.”

Ezekiel 36:29

I will save you from everything that defiles you. I will command the grain to be plentiful, so that you will not have any more famines.

Hosea 1:6

Gomer had a second child—this time it was a daughter. The Lord said to Hosea, “Name her ‘Unloved,’ because I will no longer show love to the people of Israel or forgive them.

Hosea 8:2

Even though they call me their God and claim that they are my people and that they know me,

Zechariah 10:9

Though I have scattered them among the nations, yet in far-off places they will remember me. They and their children will survive and return home together.

Zechariah 13:9

And I will test the third that survives and will purify them as silver is purified by fire. I will test them as gold is tested. Then they will pray to me, and I will answer them. I will tell them that they are my people, and they will confess that I am their God.”

Zechariah 14:16

Then all of the survivors from the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go there each year to worship the Lord Almighty as king and to celebrate the Festival of Shelters.

Zechariah 14:9

Then the Lord will be king over all the earth; everyone will worship him as God and know him by the same name.

Zechariah 2:11

At that time many nations will come to the Lord and become his people. He will live among you, and you will know that he has sent me to you.

Malachi 1:11

People from one end of the world to the other honor me. Everywhere they burn incense to me and offer acceptable sacrifices. All of them honor me!

Romans 3:29

Or is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the Gentiles also? Of course he is.

James 1:1

From James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ: Greetings to all God's people scattered over the whole world.