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11 And I will multiply on you (A)man and beast, and (B)they shall multiply and be fruitful. And I will cause you to be inhabited as in (C)your former times, and (D)will do more good to you than ever before. (E)Then you will know that I am the Lord.

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11 I will increase the number of people and animals living on you, and they will be fruitful(A) and become numerous. I will settle people(B) on you as in the past(C) and will make you prosper more than before.(D) Then you will know that I am the Lord.

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23     and (A)I will sow her for myself in the land.
And (B)I (C)will have mercy on No Mercy,[a]
    and (D)I will say to Not My People,[b] (E)‘You are my people’;
    and he shall say, ‘You are my God.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:23 Hebrew Lo-ruhama
  2. Hosea 2:23 Hebrew Lo-ammi

23 I will plant(A) her for myself in the land;
    I will show my love to the one I called ‘Not my loved one.[a](B)
I will say to those called ‘Not my people,[b]’ ‘You are my people’;(C)
    and they will say, ‘You are my God.(D)’”

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:23 Hebrew Lo-Ruhamah (see 1:6)
  2. Hosea 2:23 Hebrew Lo-Ammi (see 1:9)

(A)Though I scattered them among the nations,
    yet in far countries (B)they shall remember me,
    and with their children they shall live and return.

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Though I scatter them among the peoples,
    yet in distant lands they will remember me.(A)
They and their children will survive,
    and they will return.

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