en_tn_lite_do_not_use/hos/02/19.md

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General Information:

Yahweh is speaking to Hosea about what he will do for Israel.

I will promise to be your husband forever

Yahweh will be like the husband, and Israel will be like Yahweh's wife. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)

in righteousness, justice, covenant faithfulness, and mercy

This can be restated to remove the abstract nouns. AT: "and do what is right, just, faithful, and merciful" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns)

you will know Yahweh

Here "know" means to acknowledge Yahweh as their God and to be faithful to him.

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