14 Therefore, Look! I am going to allure her

and bring her into the desert,

and ⌊I will speak tenderly to her⌋.r

15 From there I will give her

her vineyards,

and the Valley of Achor as a doorway of hope.

And there she will respond,

as in the days of her youth,

just as in the day of her coming out of

the land of Egypt.

16 ⌊And on that day⌋—s

a declaration of Yahweh—

you will call me, “My husband;”t

you will no longer call me, “My Baal.”u

17 I will remove the names

of the Baals from her mouth,

and they will no longer be mentioned by their name.

18 I will make a covenant for them on that day,

with the animalsv of the field,

with the birdsw of the heaven, and

with the creeping thingsx of the ground;

the bow, the sword, and the war I will abolish from the land, and I will let them lie down in safety.

19 And I will take you as my wife forever;

I will take you as a wife for myself in righteousness and in justice,

in steadfast love and in mercy.

20 ⌊I will take you as my wife⌋y in faithfulness,

and you will know Yahweh.

21 On that day I will answer, ⌊declares Yahweh⌋,z

I will answer the heavens,

and they will answer the earth.

22 And the earth will answer

the grain, the wine, and the oil,

and they will answer Jezreel.a

23 I will sow her for myself in the land;

I will have pity on Lo-ruhama;b

I will say to Lo-ammi,c

“You are my people,”

and he himself will say, “you are my God.”