Holy Scripture

Hosea 2:16

A church father on this verse
“And it shall be in that day, saith the Lord, I will call my servant, and I will not call him any more Baalim: and I will take away the names of Baalim out of his mouth, and he shall no more remember their names." Similarly the LXX. Ninus, the son of Belus, is reported by all the Greek and Barbarian historians to have…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Hosea 2:16-17

Source: Septuagint

Original

16Therefore, behold, I will cause her to err, and will make her as desolate, and will speak comfortably to her.

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14And I will utterly destroy her vines, and her fig trees, all things of which she said, These are my hire which my lovers have given me: and I will make them a testimony, and the wild beasts of the field, and the birds of the sky, and the reptiles of the earth shall devour them.

15And I will recompense on her the days of Baalim, wherein she sacrificed to them, and put on her earrings, and her necklaces, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith the Lord.

— Hosea 2:16 —

17And I will give her her possessions from thence, and the Valley of Achor to open her understanding: and she shall be afflicted there according to the days of her infancy, and according to the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.

18And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that she shall call me, My husband, and shall no longer call me Baalim.

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