Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Hosea 2:15 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 15. 15And 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.
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Quick Meaning
This verse promises vineyards and transforms the valley of Achor into a door of hope and renewed song like the exodus youth.
Read It With
- Hosea 2:14-23
Read Hosea 2:15 with 2:14-23. This verse promises vineyards and transforms the valley of Achor into a door of hope and renewed song like the exodus youth. The complete unit establishes this movement: The LORD speaks to the heart in the wilderness, opens Achor as hope, removes Baal names, ends weapons, betroths in justice and faithful love, restores the land's response, and reverses all three child-names.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The turn shows Hosea's judgment-restoration rhythm and relocates true provision in a covenant of justice, loyal love, knowledge, ecological response, and disarmament. Within that movement, this verse promises vineyards and transforms the valley of Achor into a door of hope and renewed song like the exodus youth.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“door of hope”
In plain language: an opening from remembered trouble into renewed life
promises vineyards and transforms the valley of Achor into a door of hope and renewed song like the exodus youth. A remembered place of trouble can become an opening toward restored provision and voice.
Why it matters: The wording identifies this verse's distinct contribution to the complete unit.
How certain? strongWhat Remains True
A remembered place of trouble can become an opening toward restored provision and voice.
How It Can Shape Life
- Create hope through material repair and room for a harmed person's own voice.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Hosea 2:14-23 — Wilderness Speech Reverses Violence into Covenant, Safety, and New NamesSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing Scripture wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Hosea 2:14-23, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Hosea
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew, morphology, syntax, names, wordplay, repetitions, and the base text for translation questions.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Hos.xml, 2:14-23
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Hosea with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level translation, textual, grammatical, historical, rhetorical, and uncertainty notes.
Exact location: NET Bible Hosea PDF, printed pp. 1675-1677, translation and notes on 2:14-23
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