Hosea 2:14 ““Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness,…”

Hosea 2:14

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

“Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Therefore beholde, I will allure her, and bring her into the wildernesse, and speake friendly vnto her.

Darby Translation

Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak to her heart.

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

For this cause I will make her come into the waste land and will say words of comfort to her.

.mt-body { max-height: none !important; -webkit-mask-image: none !important; mask-image: none !important; } .mt-bar { display: none !important; } .o-trans::after { display: block !important; }

Cross references

“Therefore”

Isaiah 30:18 Jeremiah 16:14

Isaiah 30:18 · BSB

Therefore 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.

Jeremiah 16:14 · BSB

Yet 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.’

“I will”

John 6:44 Song of Solomon 1:4 John 12:32

John 6:44 · BSB

“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

Song of Solomon 1:4 · BSB

Take me away with you—let us hurry! May the king bring me to his chambers. The Friends We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. The Bride It is only right that they adore you.

John 12:32 · BSB

And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw everyone to Myself.”

“and bring”

Revelation 12:6 Revelation 12:14 Jeremiah 2:2 Ezekiel 20:10 Hosea 2:3 Ezekiel 20:35

Revelation 12:6 · BSB

And the woman fled into the wilderness, where God had prepared a place for her to be nourished for 1,260 days.

Revelation 12:14 · BSB

But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle to fly from the presence of the serpent to her place in the wilderness, where she was nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.

Jeremiah 2:2 · BSB

“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.

Ezekiel 20:10 · BSB

So I brought them out of the land of Egypt and led them into the wilderness.

Hosea 2:3 · BSB

Otherwise, 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.

Ezekiel 20:35 · BSB

And I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, where I will enter into judgment with you face to face.

“and speak”

Isaiah 49:13–26 Isaiah 51:3–23 Jeremiah 3:12–24 Jeremiah 30:18–22 Jeremiah 31:1–37 Jeremiah 32:36–41

Isaiah 49:13–26 · BSB

Shout 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.

Isaiah 51:3–23 · BSB

For 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 mel…

Jeremiah 3:12–24 · BSB

Go, 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.

Jeremiah 30:18–22 · BSB

This 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.

Jeremiah 31:1–37 · BSB

“At that time,” declares the LORD, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be My people.”

Jeremiah 32:36–41 · BSB

Now 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:

“comfortably”

Genesis 34:3 Judges 19:3

Genesis 34:3 · BSB

And his soul was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke to her tenderly.

Judges 19:3 · BSB

her 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…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

13I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she adorned herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.

15There I will give back her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.

Read Hosea 2