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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.

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16 “In that day,” declares the Lord,
    “you will call me ‘my husband’;(A)
    you will no longer call me ‘my master.[a]
17 I will remove the names of the Baals from her lips;(B)
    no longer will their names be invoked.(C)
18 In that day I will make a covenant for them
    with the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky
    and the creatures that move along the ground.(D)
Bow and sword and battle
    I will abolish(E) from the land,
    so that all may lie down in safety.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:16 Hebrew baal