Hosea 2:16 (LSB)

Passage

And it will be in that day,” declares Yahweh, “That you will call Me Ishi And will no longer call Me Baali.

Nearby Context

Hosea 2:14 “Therefore, behold, I will allure her And bring her into the wilderness And speak to her heart.

Hosea 2:15 Then I will give her her vineyards from there And the valley of Achor as a door of hope. And she will sing there as in the days of her youth, As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.

Hosea 2:16 And it will be in that day,” declares Yahweh, “That you will call Me Ishi And will no longer call Me Baali.

Hosea 2:17 So I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth So that they will be remembered by their names no more.

Hosea 2:18 And in that day I will cut a covenant for them With the beasts of the field, The birds of the sky, And the creeping things of the ground. And I will break the bow, the sword, and war from the land, And I will make them lie down in security.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "declares", "yahweh", "call", "ishi", "longer", and "baali". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "declares" and "yahweh", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 15's "Then I will give her her vineyards..." into verse 17's "So I will remove the names of...", so "declares" and "yahweh" belong inside that flow. In Hosea context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "declares" and "yahweh" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.