Hosea 2:14–23

¹⁴“Therefore I am now going to allure her;

I will lead her into the wilderness^m

and speak tenderly to her.

¹⁵There I will give her back her vineyards,

and will make the Valley of Achor^bn a door of hope.

There she will respond^co as in the days of her youth,^p

as in the day she came up out of Egypt.^q

¹⁶“In that day,” declares the Lord,

“you will call me ‘my husband’;^r

you will no longer call me ‘my master.^d’

¹⁷I will remove the names of the Baals from her lips;^s

no longer will their names be invoked.^t

¹⁸In that day I will make a covenant for them

with the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky

and the creatures that move along the ground.^u

Bow and sword and battle

I will abolish^v from the land,

so that all may lie down in safety.^w

¹⁹I will betroth^x you to me forever;

I will betroth you in^e righteousness and justice,^y

in^f love and compassion.^z

²⁰I will betroth you in^g faithfulness,

and you will acknowledge^a the Lord.^b

²¹“In that day I will respond,”

declares the Lord—

“I will respond^c to the skies,

and they will respond to the earth;

²²and the earth will respond to the grain,

the new wine and the olive oil,^d

and they will respond to Jezreel.^he

²³I will plant^f her for myself in the land;

I will show my love to the one I called ‘Not my loved one.^ig’

I will say to those called ‘Not my people,^j’ ‘You are my people’;^h

and they will say, ‘You are my God.ⁱ’ ”