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

¹⁴ Therefore, Look! I [am] going to allure her and bring her [into] the desert, and {I will speak tenderly to her}. ¹⁵ From there I will give her her vineyards, and the Valley of Achor as a doorway of hope. And there she will respond, as [in] the days of her youth, just as [in] the day of her coming out of the land of Egypt. ¹⁶ {And on that day}-- a declaration of Yahweh-- you will call me, "My husband;" you will no longer call me, "My Baal." ¹⁷ I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by their name. ¹⁸ I will make a covenant for them on that day, with the animals of the field, with the birds of the heaven, and [with] the creeping things of the ground; [the] bow, [the] sword, and [the] war I will abolish from the land, and I will let them lie down in safety. ¹⁹ And I will take you as my wife forever; I will take you as a wife for myself in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. ²⁰ {I will take you as my wife} in faithfulness, and you will know Yahweh. ²¹ On that day I will answer, {declares Yahweh}, I will answer the heavens, and they will answer the earth. ²² And the earth will answer the grain, the wine, and the oil, and they will answer Jezreel. ²³ I will sow her for myself in the land; I will have pity on Lo-ruhama; I will say to Lo-ammi, "You are my people," and he himself will say, "[you are] my God."