Hosea 2:14

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““Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness, and speak to her tenderly.”

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““Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness, and speak to her tenderly.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.”

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“Therefore, lo, I am enticing her, And have caused her to go to the wilderness, And I have spoken unto her heart,”

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Cross references

Other passages that echo Hosea 2:14 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 34:3And his soul was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke to her tenderly.
  2. Judges 19:3her husband got up and went after her to speak kindly to her and bring her back, taking his servant and a pair of donkeys. So the girl brought him into her father’s house, and when her father saw him, he gladly welcomed him.
  3. Song of Solomon 1:4Take me away with you—let us hurry! May the king bring me to his chambers. We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. It is only right that they adore you.
  4. Isaiah 5:5Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.
  5. Isaiah 30:18Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore He rises to show you compassion, for the LORD is a just God. Blessed are all who wait for Him.
  6. Isaiah 35:3Strengthen the limp hands and steady the feeble knees!
  7. Isaiah 40:1“Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.
  8. Isaiah 49:13Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; break forth in song, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people, and He will have compassion on His afflicted ones.
  9. Isaiah 51:3For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.
  10. Jeremiah 2:2“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
  11. Jeremiah 3:12Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever.
  12. Jeremiah 16:14Yet behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they will no longer say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of Egypt.’
  13. Jeremiah 30:18This is what the LORD says: “I will restore the fortunes of Jacob’s tents and have compassion on his dwellings. And the city will be rebuilt on her own ruins, and the palace will stand in its rightful place.
  14. Jeremiah 31:1“At that time,” declares the LORD, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be My people.”
  15. Jeremiah 32:36Now therefore, about this city of which you say, ‘It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword and famine and plague,’ this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says:
  16. Jeremiah 33:6Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.
  17. Jeremiah 45:4Thus Jeremiah was to say to Baruch: “This is what the LORD says: Throughout the land I will demolish what I have built and uproot what I have planted.
  18. Ezekiel 20:10So I brought them out of the land of Egypt and led them into the wilderness.
  19. Ezekiel 20:35And I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, where I will enter into judgment with you face to face.
  20. Ezekiel 34:22I will save My flock, and they will no longer be prey. I will judge between one sheep and another.
  21. Ezekiel 36:8But you, O mountains of Israel, will produce branches and bear fruit for My people Israel, for they will soon come home.
  22. Ezekiel 37:11Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’
  23. Ezekiel 39:25Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Now I will restore Jacob from captivity and will have compassion on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for My holy name.
  24. Hosea 2:3Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.

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