Hosea 2:17

"It will be in that day,” says the LORD, “that you will call me ‘my husband,’ and no longer call me ‘my master.’"

Key Reflection

In Hosea 2:17, the prophet conveys a profound shift in Israel's relationship with God. The verse indicates that during this future "day," the people will no longer address Yahweh as "my master," a term reflecting their servile position, but instead will call him "my husband." This change signifies a transformation from a master-slave dynamic to one of mutual partnership and equality, highlighting God's desire for a loving, covenantal relationship with his people.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

For I will take array the names of Baalim out of her mouth -It is, then, of grace. He does not only promise the ceasing of idolatry, but that it shall be the fruit of His converting grace, the gift of Him from whom “is both to will and to do. I will take away, as God saith elsewhere, “I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall be no more rememberedZechariah 13:1-9; and, “the idols He shall utterly abolish”Isaiah 2:18. In like way God foretells of Judah that the fruit of her captivity should be, that her idols should cease, that He would cleanse them from their idols, and renew them by His grace.

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