Hosea 2:14-23 - Israel's Adultery Forgiven

¹⁴ Therefore, I am going to persuade her,
lead her to the wilderness,
and speak tenderly to her.
¹⁵ There I will give her vineyards back to her
and make the Valley of Achor
into a gateway of hope.
There she will respond as she did
in the days of her youth,
as in the day she came out of the land of Egypt.
¹⁶ In that day—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
you will call Me, “My husband,”
and no longer call Me, “My Baal.”
¹⁷ For I will remove the names of the Baals
from her mouth;
they will no longer be remembered by their names.
¹⁸ On that day I will make a covenant for them
with the wild animals, the birds of the sky,
and the creatures that crawl on the ground.
I will shatter bow, sword,
and weapons of war in the land
and will enable the people to rest securely.
¹⁹ I will take you to be My wife forever.
I will take you to be My wife in righteousness,
justice, love, and compassion.
²⁰ I will take you to be My wife in faithfulness,
and you will know Yahweh.
²¹ On that day I will respond—
this is the Lord’s declaration.
I will respond to the sky,
and it will respond to the earth.
²² The earth will respond to the grain,
the new wine, and the oil,
and they will respond to Jezreel.
²³ I will sow her in the land for Myself,
and I will have compassion
on No Compassion;
I will say to Not My People:
You are My people,
and he will say, “You are My God.”