Hosea 2:19
I will make you my wife forever; I will make you my wife in goodness and justice and love and mercy.
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20I will be faithful to you, my wife, and you will know me as the Lord.
Cross References
Psalms 85:10Trustworthiness and faithful love join together; goodness and peace have kissed each other.
Isaiah 45:23I have sworn by my own self, I have spoken what is right, and I won't ever go back on it. Everyone shall bow before me; everyone shall acknowledge me.
Isaiah 54:8In a moment of anger I turned my face away from you, but now with trustworthy love I will always be kind to you, says the Lord, your Redeemer.
Isaiah 62:3You will be a crown of beauty in the Lord's hand; a royal head-dress in the hand of your God.
Jeremiah 4:2and if when you make your vows, you do so only to me, sincerely, truly, and honestly, then the nations will be blessed by me, and they will praise me.
Jeremiah 32:38They will be my people, and I will be their God.
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 →