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Hosea 2:19 KJV
Hosea · chapter 2 · verse 19
And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.Hosea 2:19 · King James Version
Hosea 2:19 in context
17For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
18And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
19And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.
20I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.
21And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;
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Key words (Strong's)
- lovingkindnesschêçêdkindnessH2617 →
- righteousnesstsedeqthe rightH6664 →
- judgmentmishpâṭproperly, a verdict pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree divine…H4941 →
- betrothʼârasto engage for matrimonyH781 →
- everʻôwlâmproperly, concealedH5769 →
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The state of Israel ruined by their own sin did not look so black and dismal in the former part of the chapter, but that the state of Israel, restrained by the divine grace, looks as bright and pleasant here in the latter part of the chapter, and the more surprisingly so as the promises follow thus close upon the…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 14-23