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Hosea 2:10-20

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10 Now I will expose her shame in the sight of her lovers, and no one will rescue her from My hands.
11 I will put an end to all her celebrations: her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths- all her festivals.
12 I will devastate her vines and fig trees. She thinks that these are her wages that her lovers have given her. I will turn them into a thicket, and the wild animals will eat them.
13 And I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, put on her rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers, but forgot Me. [This is]*The bracketed text has been added for clarity. the Lord's declaration.

Israel's Adultery Forgiven

14 Therefore, I am going to persuade her, lead her to the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.[a]
15 There I will give her vineyards back to her and make the Valley of Achor[b] into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as [she did] in the days of her youth, as in the day she came out of the land of Egypt.
16 In that day- the Lord's declaration- you will call [Me]: My husband, and no longer call Me: My Baal.[c]
17 For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth; they will no longer be remembered by their names.
18 On that day I will make a covenant for them with the wild animals, the birds of the sky, and the creatures that crawl on the ground. I will shatter bow, sword, and weapons of war in the land[d] and will enable the people to rest securely.
19 I will take you to be My wife forever. I will take you to be My wife in righteousness, justice, love, and compassion.
20 I will take you to be My wife in faithfulness, and you will know the Lord.
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Hosea 2:10-20 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO HOSEA 2

This chapter is an explanation of the former, proceeding upon the same argument in more express words. The godly Israelites are here called upon to lay before the body of the people their idolatry, ingratitude, obstinacy, and ignorance of the God of their mercies; and to exhort them to repentance, lest they should be stripped of all their good things, and be brought into great distress and difficulties; all their joy and comfort cease, and be exposed to shame and contempt, Ho 2:1-13, yet, notwithstanding, many gracious promises are made unto them, of their having the alluring and comfortable word of the Gospel; of a door of hope; of salvation being opened to them; of faith in the Lord, and affection to him as their husband; of the removal of all idolatry from them; of safety from all enemies; of their open espousal to Christ; of his hearing of their prayers, and giving them plenty of all good things; and of their multiplication, conversion, and covenant relation to God, Ho 2:14-23.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Footnotes 4

  • [a] Lit speak to her heart
  • [b] Trouble; Jos 7:26
  • [c] Or My master
  • [d] Or war on the earth
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