Hosea 2:14–23

Israel’s Adultery Forgiven

¹⁴Therefore, I am going to persuade her,

lead her to the wilderness, ⁱ

and speak tenderly to her. ^j

¹⁵There I will give her vineyards back to her ^k

and make the Valley of Achor ^lm

into a gateway of hope.

There she will respond as she did

in the days of her youth, ⁿ

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

¹⁶In that day—

this is the Lord’s declaration—

you will call Me, “My husband,” ^o

and no longer call Me, “My Baal.” ^p

¹⁷For I will remove the names of the Baals

from her mouth;

they will no longer be remembered by their names.

¹⁸On that day I will make a covenant for them

with the wild animals, the birds of the sky,

and the creatures that crawl on the ground. ^q

I will shatter bow, sword,

and weapons of war in the land ^rs

and will enable the people to rest securely. ^t

¹⁹I will take you to be My wife forever. ^u

I will take you to be My wife in righteousness,

justice, love, and compassion. ^v

²⁰I will take you to be My wife in faithfulness,

and you will know Yahweh. ^w

²¹On that day I will respond ^x—

this is the Lord’s declaration.

I will respond to the sky,

and it will respond to the earth.

²²The earth will respond to the grain, ^y

the new wine, and the oil,

and they will respond to Jezreel.

²³I will sow her ^zin the land for Myself, ^a

and I will have compassion ^b

on No Compassion;

I will say ^cto Not My People: ^d

You are My people, ^e

and he will say, “You are My God.”