Hosea 2:14–16

ISRAEL’S ADULTERY FORGIVEN

14 Therefore, I am going to persuade her,

lead her to the wilderness,s

and speak tenderly to her.B

15 There I will give her vineyards back to hert

and make the Valley of AchorA,u

into a gateway of hope.

There she will respond as she did

in the days of her youth,v

as in the day she came out of the land of Egypt.

16 In that day—

this is the Lord’s declaration—

you will call me, “My husband,”w

and no longer call me, “My Baal.”B