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Hosea 2:17-23

Hosea 2:17-23 NCV

I will never let her say the names of Baal again; people won’t use their names anymore. At that time I will make an agreement for them with the wild animals, the birds, and the crawling things. I will smash from the land the bow and the sword and the weapons of war, so my people will live in safety. And I will make you my promised bride forever. I will be good and fair; I will show you my love and mercy. I will be true to you as my promised bride, and you will know the LORD. “At that time I will speak to you,” says the LORD. “I will speak to the skies, and they will give rain to the earth. The earth will produce grain, new wine, and oil; much will grow because my people are called Jezreel. I will plant my people in the land, and I will show pity to the one I had called ‘not shown pity.’ I will say, ‘You are my people’ to those I had called ‘not my people.’ And they will say to me, ‘You are our God.’ ”