Hosea 2:23
And I will put her as seed in the earth, and I will have mercy on her to whom no mercy was given; and I will say to those who were not my people, You are my people, and they will say, My God.
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Deuteronomy 26:17Today you have given witness that the Lord is your God, and that you will go in his ways and keep his laws and his orders and his decisions and give ear to his voice:
Psalms 68:31\68:30\Say sharp words to the beast among the water-plants, the band of strong ones, with the lords of the peoples, put an end to the people whose delight is in war.
Psalms 118:28You are my God, and I will give you praise; my God, and I will give honour to your name.
Isaiah 44:5One will say, I am the Lord's; and another will give himself the name, Jacob; another will put a mark on his hand, I am the Lord's, and another will take the name of Israel for himself.
Jeremiah 31:27See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will have Israel and Judah planted with the seed of man and with the seed of beast.
Ezekiel 36:29And I will make you free from all your unclean ways: and at my voice the grain will come up and be increased, and I will not let you be short of food.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 2:15-23
Promises of Mercy. ( b. c. 764.) 14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. 15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. 16 And it shall be at that day, saith the Lord , that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali. 17 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her… Read the whole commentary →