Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Osee 2:11-21 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

11. And I will cause all her mirth to cease, her solemnities, her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her festival times.

12. And I will destroy her vines, and her fig trees, of which she said: These are my rewards, which my lovers have given me: and I will make her as a forest, and the beasts of the field shall devour her.

13. And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, to whom she burnt incense, and decked herself out with her earrings, and with her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith the Lord.

14. Therefore, behold I will allure her, and will lead her into the wilderness: and I will speak to her heart.

15. And I will give her vinedressers out of the same place, and the valley of Achor for an opening of hope: and she shall sing there according to the days of her youth, and according to the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.

16. And it shall be in that day, saith the Lord, That she shall call me: My husband, and she shall call me no more Baali.

17. And I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and she shall no more remember their name.

18. And 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.

19. 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.

20. And I will espouse thee to me in faith: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

21. And 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.