Hosea 2:14
What does Hosea 2:14 mean?
A plain-English look at Hosea 2:14 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949For this cause I will make her come into the waste land and will say words of comfort to her.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Therefore, lo, I am enticing her, And have caused her to go to the wilderness, And I have spoken unto her heart,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Therefore, behold I will allure her, and will lead her into the wilderness: and I will speak to her heart.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak to her heart.
Context
v.13And I will visit upon her the days of the Baalim, unto which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith Jehovah.
v.14This passage
v.15And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she shall make answer there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ezekiel 20:35
and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there will I enter into judgment with you face to face.
- Romans 11:26
and so all Israel shall be saved: even as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer; He shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
- Ezekiel 37:11
Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.
- Revelation 12:14
And there were given to the woman the two wings of the great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness unto her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
- Isaiah 35:3
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
- Micah 7:14
Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy heritage, which dwell solitarily, in the forest in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
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