And it shall be at that day,
says the LORD,
that you shall call me Ishi; and shall call me no more Baali.
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Richard Challoner
AD 1781
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 its affinity with the idol Baal.