Agricultural Fertility Restored to the Repentant Nation

2:21 “At that time,70 I will willingly respond,”71 declares the Lord.

“I will respond to the sky,

and the sky72 will respond to the ground;

2:22 then the ground will respond to the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil;

and they will respond to ‘God Plants’ (Jezreel)!73

2:23 Then I will plant her as my own74 in the land.

I will have pity on ‘No Pity’ (Lo-Ruhamah).

I will say to ‘Not My People’ (Lo-Ammi), ‘You are my people!’

And he75 will say, ‘You are76 my God!’ ”