Hosea 2:23
And I will plant her for me in the land, and I will have mercy on her, though she had been called Without Mercy.
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In Context
24And I will say to Not My People, ‘You are my people,’ and they will say, ‘You are my God.’”
Cross References
Deuteronomy 26:17Today, you have chosen the Lord to be your God, so that you may walk in his ways, and keep his ceremonies and commandments and judgments, and obey his command.
Psalms 68:31I will praise the name of God with a canticle, and I will magnify him with praise.
Psalms 118:28My soul has slumbered because of weariness. Confirm me in your words.
Isaiah 44:5This one will say, “I am the Lord’s,” and that one will call himself by the name of Jacob, and yet another will write with his hand, “For the Lord,” and he will take the name Israel.
Jeremiah 31:27Behold, the days are approaching, says the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the offspring of men and with the offspring of cattle.
Ezekiel 36:29And I will save you from all your filth. And I will call for grain, and I will multiply it, and I will not impose a famine upon you.
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 →