Osee 2:16
And it shall be in that day, saith the Lord, That she shall call me: My husband, and she shall call me no more Baali.
Challoner: My husbandIn Hebrew, Ishi. Baali, my lord. The meaning of this verse is: that whereas Ishi and Baali were used indifferently in those days by wives speaking to their husbands; the synagogue, whom God was pleased to consider as his spouse, should call him only Ishi, and abstain from the name of Baali, because of its affinity with the idol Baal.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et erit in die illa, ait Dominus : vocabit me, Vir meus, et non vocabit me ultra Baali.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἔσται ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ, λέγει Κύριος, καλέσει με Ὁ ἀνήρ μου, καὶ οὐ καλέσει με ἔτι Βααλείμ·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Osee 2:18
- וְהָיָ֤ה בַיּוֹם הַהוּא֙ נְאֻם יְהוָ֔ה תִּקְרְאִ֖י אִישִׁ֑י וְלֹֽא תִקְרְאִי לִ֥י ע֖וֹד בַּעְלִֽי
Haydock's commentary
My husband. In Hebrew Ishi.
Baali: my lord. The meaning of this verse is: that, whereas, Ishi and Baali were used indifferently in those days by wives speaking to their husbands, the synagogue, whom God was pleased to consider as his spouse, should call him only Ishi, and abstain from the name of Baali, because of his affinity with the name of the idol Baal. (Challoner)
The very name shall become obsolete. (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.