KJV King James Version
Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
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Hosea 2:14
Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
“Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness, and speak to her tenderly.
WEB World English Bible
“Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.
ASV American Standard Version
Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Therefore, lo, I am enticing her, And have caused her to go to the wilderness, And I have spoken unto her heart,
Surrounding context — Hosea 2
11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These [are] my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
13 And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.
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 mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
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Isaiah 40:1-2Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.Ezekiel 20:35-36And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.Isaiah 30:18And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD [is] a God of judgment: blessed [are] all they that wait for him.Revelation 12:6And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred [and] threescore days.Genesis 34:3And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.Revelation 12:14And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.John 6:44No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.Romans 11:26-27And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:Jeremiah 33:6-26Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.Zephaniah 3:9-20For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.Isaiah 35:3-4Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.Ezekiel 37:11-28Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.Amos 9:11-15In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:Jeremiah 31:1-37At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.Ezekiel 20:10Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.Isaiah 51:3-23For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.Isaiah 49:13-26Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.Jeremiah 32:36-41And now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence;
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