Hosea 2:19
Good News Translation
Israel, I will make you my wife; I will be true and faithful; I will show you constant love and mercy and make you mine forever.

New Revised Standard Version
And I will take you for my wife forever; I will take you for my wife in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love, and in mercy.

Contemporary English Version
I will accept you as my wife forever, and instead of a bride price I will give you justice, fairness, love, kindness,

New American Bible
I will betroth you to me forever: I will betroth you to me with justice and with judgment, with loyalty and with compassion;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will espouse thee to me for ever: and I will espouse thee to me in justice, and judgment, and in mercy, and in commiserations.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I will espouse thee to me for ever: and I will espouse thee to me in justice, and judgment, and in mercy, and in commiserations.

And I will.

Isaiah 54:5 For he that made thee shall rule over thee, the Lord of hosts is his name: and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, shall be called the God of all the earth.

Isaiah 62:3-5 And thou shalt be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. . . .

Jeremiah 3:14,15 Return, O ye revolting children, saith the Lord: for I am your I husband: and I will take you, one of a city, and two of a kindred, and will bring you into Sion. . . .

John 3:29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, who standeth and heareth Him, rejoiceth with joy because of the bridegroom's voice. This my joy therefore is fulfilled.

Romans 7:4 Therefore, my brethren, you also are become dead to the law, by the body of Christ: that you may belong to another, who is risen again from the dead that we may bring forth fruit to God.

2 Corinthians 11:2 For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God. For I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

Ephesians 5:25-27 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church and delivered himself up for it: . . .

Revelation 19:7-9 Let us be glad and rejoice and give glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb is come: and his wife hath prepared herself. . . .

Revelation 21:2,9,10 And I, John, saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. . . .

for.

Isaiah 54:8-10 In a moment of indignation have I hid my face a little while from thee, but with everlasting kindness have I had mercy on thee, said the Lord thy Redeemer. . . .

Jeremiah 31:31-36 Behold the days shall come, saith the Lord, and I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Juda: . . .

Jeremiah 32:38-41 And they shall be my people, and I will be their God. . . .

Ezekiel 37:25-28 And they shall dwell in the land which I gave to my servant Jacob, wherein your fathers dwelt, and they shall dwell in it, they and their children, and their children's children, for ever: and David my servant shall be their prince for ever. . . .

Ezekiel 39:29 And I will hide my face no more from them, for I have poured out my spirit upon all the house of Israel, saith the Lord God.

Joel 3:20 And Judea shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem to generation and generation.

in righteousness.

Psalm 85:10 Mercy and truth have met each other: justice and peace have kissed.

Isaiah 45:23-25 I have sworn by myself, the word of justice shall go out of my mouth, and shall not return: . . .

Isaiah 54:14 And thou shalt be founded in justice: depart far from oppression, for thou shalt not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near thee.

Jeremiah 4:2 And thou shalt swear: As the Lord liveth, in truth, and in judgment, and in justice: and the Gentiles shall bless him, and shall praise him.

Romans 3:25-26 Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins, . . .

Ephesians 1:7,8 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of sins, according to the riches of his, grace, . . .

Ephesians 5:23-27 Because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. He is the saviour of his body. . . .

Context
God's Mercy to Israel
18And in that day I will make a covenant with them, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the air, and with the creeping things of the earth: and I will destroy the bow, and the sword, and war out of the land: and I will make them sleep secure. 19And I will espouse thee to me for ever: and I will espouse thee to me in justice, and judgment, and in mercy, and in commiserations.20And I will espouse thee to me in faith: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.…
Cross References
2 Corinthians 11:2
For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God. For I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

Isaiah 1:27
Sion shall be redeemed in judgment, and they shall bring her back in justice.

Isaiah 54:5
For he that made thee shall rule over thee, the Lord of hosts is his name: and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, shall be called the God of all the earth.

Isaiah 54:6
For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and mourning in spirit, and as a wife cast off from her youth, said thy God.

Isaiah 62:4
Thou shalt no more be called Forsaken: and thy land shall no more be called Desolate: but thou shalt be called My pleasure in her, and thy land inhabited. Because the Lord hath been well pleased with thee: and thy land shall be inhabited.

Isaiah 62:5
For the young man shall dwell with the virgin, and thy children shall dwell in thee. And the bridegroom shall rejoice over the bride, and thy God shall rejoice over thee.

Jeremiah 3:14
Return, O ye revolting children, saith the Lord: for I am your I husband: and I will take you, one of a city, and two of a kindred, and will bring you into Sion.

Jeremiah 32:41
And I will rejoice over them, when I shall do them good: and I will plant them in this land in truth, with my whole heart, and with all my soul.

Ezekiel 16:8
And I passed by thee, and saw thee: and behold thy time was the time of lovers: and I spread my garment over thee, and covered thy ignominy. and I swore to thee, and I entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God: and thou becamest mine.

Hosea 2:18
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