Hosea 2:14–23

¹⁴“Therefore, behold, I will allure her,

and bring her into the wilderness,

and speak tenderly to her.

¹⁵And there I will give her her vineyards,

and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope.

And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth,

as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁶“And in that day, says the Lord, you will call me, ‘My husband,’ and no longer will you call me, ‘My Baal.’ ¹⁷For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be mentioned by name no more. ¹⁸And I will make for you a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the creeping things of the ground; and I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land; and I will make you lie down in safety. ¹⁹And I will betroth you to me for ever; I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love, and in mercy. ²⁰I will betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know the Lord.

²¹“And in that day, says the Lord,

I will answer the heavens

and they shall answer the earth;

²²and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil,

and they shall answer Jezreel;

²³and I will sow him for myself in the land.

And I will have pity on Not pitied,

and I will say to Not my people, ‘You are my people’;

and he shall say ‘Thou art my God.’ ”