Hosea 2:23
I will ‘sow’ her for myself in the earth. I will love Lo-ruhamah (unloved) and I will say ‘You are my people’ to Lo-ammi (not my people), and they will say, ‘You are my God.’”
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Deuteronomy 26:17Today you have publicly declared that the Lord is your God and that you will follow his ways, keep rules and commandments and regulations, and obey what he says.
Psalms 68:31Let Egypt come with bronze gifts; let Ethiopia come quickly and hand over their tributes to God!
Psalms 118:28You are my God, and I will thank you! You are my God, and I will praise you!
Isaiah 44:5One of them will say, “I belong to the Lord,” while another will call himself by the name Jacob, and yet another will write on his hand, “Belonging to the Lord,” and will name himself Israel.
Jeremiah 31:27Look! The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will make the numbers of people and livestock grow in Israel and Judah.
Ezekiel 36:29I will save you from everything that makes you unclean. I will make sure you have plenty of grain. I won't send you any famines.
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 →