Hosea 2:14–23

¹⁴Therefore, Look! I am going to allure her

and bring her into the desert,

and I will speak tenderly to her.^r

¹⁵From 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.

¹⁶And on that day—^s

a declaration of Yahweh—

you will call me, “My husband;”^t

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

¹⁷I will remove the names

of the Baals from her mouth,

and they will no longer be mentioned by their name.

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

with the animals^v of the field,

with the birds^w of the heaven, and

with the creeping things^x 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.

¹⁹And 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.

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

and you will know Yahweh.

²¹On that day I will answer, declares Yahweh,^z

I will answer the heavens,

and they will answer the earth.

²²And the earth will answer

the grain, the wine, and the oil,

and they will answer Jezreel.^a

²³I 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.”