Hosea 2:14–23

Restoration of Israel

¹⁴“Therefore, behold, I will allure her,

^aBring her into the wilderness

And speak ¹kindly to her.

¹⁵“Then I will give her her ^avineyards from there,

And ^bthe valley of Achor as a door of hope.

And she will ^1csing there as in the days of her youth,

As in the ^dday when she came up from the land of Egypt.

¹⁶“It will come about in that day,” declares the Lord,

“That you will call Me ^1aIshi

And will no longer call Me ²Baali.

¹⁷“For ^aI will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth,

So that they will be ¹mentioned by their names no more.

¹⁸“In that day I will also make a covenant for them

With the ^abeasts of the field,

The birds of the sky

And the creeping things of the ground.

And I will ^1babolish the bow, the sword and war from the land,

And will make them ^clie down in safety.

¹⁹“I will ^abetroth you to Me forever;

Yes, I will betroth you to Me in ^brighteousness and in justice,

In lovingkindness and in compassion,

²⁰And I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness.

Then you will ^aknow the Lord.

²¹“It will come about in that day that ^aI will respond,” declares the Lord.

“I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth,

²²And the ^aearth will respond to the grain, to the new wine and to the oil,

And they will respond to ¹Jezreel.

²³“I will ^asow her for Myself in the land.

^bI will also have compassion on ¹her who had not obtained compassion,

And ^cI will say to ²those who were ^dnot My people,

‘You are My people!’

And ³they will say, ‘You are my God!’ ”