Hosea 2:14–23

¹⁴“Therefore, behold, I will allure her

and lead her to the wilderness,

and speak to her tenderly.

¹⁵There I will give back her vineyards

and make the Valley of Achor^d

into a gateway of hope.

There she will respond as she did

in the days of her youth,

as in the day she came up out of Egypt.

¹⁶In that day,”

declares the LORD,

“you will call Me ‘my Husband,’^e

and no longer call Me ‘my Master.’^f

¹⁷For I will remove from her lips the names of the Baals;

no longer will their names be invoked.

¹⁸On that day I will make a covenant for them

with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air

and the creatures that crawl on the ground.

And I will abolish bow and sword

and battle in the land,

and will make them lie down in safety.

¹⁹So I will betroth you to Me forever;

I will betroth you in righteousness and justice,

in loving devotion^g and compassion.

²⁰And I will betroth you in faithfulness,

and you will know the LORD.”

²¹“On that day I will respond —”

declares the LORD —

“I will respond to the heavens,

and they will respond to the earth.

²²And the earth will respond to the grain,

to the new wine and oil,

and they will respond to Jezreel.^h

²³And I will sow her as My own in the land,

and I will have compassion on ‘No Compassion.’ⁱ

I will say to those called ‘Not My People,’^j

‘You are My people,’^k

and they will say,

‘You are my God.’”