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16 The Lord says, “In the future she will call me ‘my husband’;
    no longer will she call me ‘my baal.’[a]
17 I will never let her say the names of Baal again;
    people won’t use their names anymore.
18 At that time I will make an agreement for them
    with the wild animals, the birds, and the crawling things.
I will smash from the land
    the bow and the sword and the weapons of war,
    so my people will live in safety.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:16 baal Another Hebrew word for husband, but it was the same word as the false god Baal.

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