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HOSEA
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- 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.
- 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.
- Therefore, behold, I will allure her,
- And bring her into the wilderness,
- And speak comfortably unto her.
- 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.
- And it shall be at that day, saith the Lord, that thou shalt call me Ishi;
- And shalt call me no more Baali.
- For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth,
- And they shall no more be remembered by their name.
- And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field,
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