Hosea 2:14–23

¹⁴“So I am going to attract her;

I will lead her into the desert

and speak tenderly to her.

¹⁵There I will give her back her vineyards,

and I will make the Valley of Trouble a door of hope.

There she will respond as when she was young,

as when she came out of Egypt.”

¹⁶The Lord says, “In the future she will call me ‘my husband;’

no longer will she call me ‘my baal.’ ⁿ

¹⁷I will never let her say the names of Baal again;

people won’t use their names anymore.

¹⁸At that time I will make an agreement for them

with the wild animals, the birds, and the crawling things.

I will smash from the land

the bow and the sword and the weapons of war,

so my people will live in safety.

¹⁹And I will make you my promised bride forever.

I will be good and fair;

I will show you my love and mercy.

²⁰I will be true to you as my promised bride,

and you will know the Lord.

²¹“At that time I will speak to you,” says the Lord.

“I will speak to the skies,

and they will give rain to the earth.

²²The earth will produce grain, new wine, and oil;

much will grow because my people are called Jezreel. ⁿ

²³I will plant my people in the land,

and I will show pity to the one I had called ‘not shown pity.’

I will say, ‘You are my people’

to those I had called ‘not my people.’

And they will say to me, ‘You are our God.’ ”