Hosea 2:14–23

The Lord’s Mercy on Israel

¹⁴“Therefore, behold, I will allure her,

and ^ebring her into the wilderness,

and ^fspeak tenderly to her.

¹⁵And there I will give her her vineyards

and make the Valley of Achor⁵ a door of hope.

And there she shall answer ^gas in the days of her youth,

as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁶“And ^hin that day, declares the Lord, you will call me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer will you call me ‘My Baal.’ ¹⁷For ⁱI will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more. ¹⁸And ^jI will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground. And ^kI will abolish⁶ the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in ^lsafety. ¹⁹And I will betroth you to me ^mforever. ⁿI will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. ²⁰ⁿI will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And ^oyou shall know the Lord.

²¹“And ^pin that day ^qI will answer, declares the Lord,

I will answer the heavens,

and they shall answer the earth,

²²and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil,

and they shall answer ^rJezreel,⁷

²³and ^sI will sow her for myself in the land.

And ^tI ^uwill have mercy on No Mercy,⁸

and ^vI will say to Not My People,^{9 w}‘You are my people’;

and he shall say, ‘You are my God.’ ”