Hosea 2:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For I will remove from her lips the names of the Baals; no longer will their names be invoked.”
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“For I will remove from her lips the names of the Baals; no longer will their names be invoked.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For I will take away the names of the Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be mentioned by their name.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And I have turned aside the names of the lords from her mouth, And they are not remembered any more by their name.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Hosea 2:17 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 15:1Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD: “I will sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted. The horse and rider He has thrown into the sea.
- Exodus 23:13Pay close attention to everything I have said to you. You must not invoke the names of other gods; they must not be heard on your lips.
- Joshua 7:26And they heaped over Achan a large pile of rocks that remains to this day. So the LORD turned from His burning anger. Therefore that place is called the Valley of Achor to this day.
- Joshua 23:7So you are not to associate with these nations that remain among you. You must not call on the names of their gods or swear by them, and you must not serve them or bow down to them.
- Psalms 16:4Sorrows will multiply to those who chase other gods. I will not pour out their libations of blood, or speak their names with my lips.
- Jeremiah 2:2“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.
- Jeremiah 10:11Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from under these heavens.”
- Zechariah 13:2And on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will also remove the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.
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