Hosea 2:23
And I have sowed her to Me in the land, || And I have pitied Lo-Ruhamah, || And I have said to Lo-Ammi, You [are] My people, || And he says, My God!”
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In Context
22And the earth answers the grain, || And the new wine, and the oil, || And they answer Jezreel.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 26:17Today you have proclaimed YHWH to be to you for God, that [you are] to walk in His ways, and to keep His statutes, and His commands, and His judgments, and to listen to His voice.
Psalms 68:31Fat ones come out of Egypt, || Cush causes her hands to run to God.
Psalms 118:28You [are] my God, and I confess You, || My God, I exalt You.
Isaiah 44:5This [one] says, For I [am] YHWH’s, || And this calls [himself] by the name of Jacob, || And this [one] writes [with] his hand, For YHWH, || And surnames himself by the name of Israel.”
Jeremiah 31:27“Behold, days are coming,” || A declaration of YHWH, || “And I have sown the house of Israel, || And the house of Judah, || With seed of man and seed of beast.
Ezekiel 36:29And I have saved you from all your uncleannesses, || And I have called to the grain, and multiplied it, || And I have put no famine on 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 →