Lesson: Hope Shrinks Trials<br>
Reading: Hope for the repentant <br>
Reference: Hos. 2:14-23<br><br>
Hosea 2:14: Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.<br>
Hosea 2:15: And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.<br>
Hosea 2:16: And it shall be at that day, saith the Lord, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.<br>
Hosea 2:17: For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.<br>
Hosea 2:18: And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.<br>
Hosea 2:19: And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.<br>
Hosea 2:20: I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord.<br>
Hosea 2:21: 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;<br>
Hosea 2:22: And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.<br>
Hosea 2:23: And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.<br>
(KJV)<br>