The validation of Israel’s covenant status with Jehovah continues. Following the enforcement of the penalties for covenant violation Hosea 2:2-13, Jehovah reveals Israel’s future rewards based upon Israel’s renewed commitment to him. Hosea 2:14-23 (NWT) 14 ‘So I will persuade her, I will lead her into the wilderness, And I will speak to win her heart. 15 I will give her vineyards back to her from that time onward,+ And the Valley of A′chor as a gateway to hope; She will answer there as in the days of her youth, As in the day when she came out of the land of Egypt. 16 And in that day,’ declares Jehovah, ‘You will call me My husband, and you will no longer call me My master.’ 17 ‘I will remove the names of the Ba′al images from her mouth, And they will no longer be remembered by their name. 18 In that day I will make a covenant for them with the wild animals of the field, And with the birds of the heavens and the creeping things of the ground; I will rid the land of the bow and the sword and war, And I will make them lie down in security. 19 I will engage myself to you forever; And I will engage myself to you in righteousness and in justice, In loyal love and in mercy. 20 I will engage myself to you in faithfulness, And you will certainly know Jehovah.’ 21 ‘In that day I will answer,’ declares Jehovah, ‘I will answer the heavens, And they will answer the earth; 22 And the earth will answer the grain and the new wine and the oil; And they will answer Jez′re·el. 23 I will sow her like seed for myself in the earth, And I will show mercy to her who was not shown mercy; I will say to those not my people: “You are my people,” And they will say: “You are my God.”
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 04:22:19 +0000
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