Hosea 2:14-23

New International Version - UK

¹⁴ ‘Therefore I am now going to allure her;
    I will lead her into the wilderness
    and speak tenderly to her.
¹⁵ There I will give her back her vineyards,
    and will make the Valley of Achor^[a] a door of hope.
There she will respond^[b] as in the days of her youth,
    as in the day she came up out of Egypt.

¹⁶ ‘In that day,’ declares the Lord,
    ‘you will call me “my husband”;
    you will no longer call me “my master”.^[c]
17 I will remove the names of the Baals from her lips;
    no longer will their names be invoked.
¹⁸ In 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.
Bow and sword and battle
    I will abolish from the land,
    so that all may lie down in safety.
¹⁹ I will betroth you to me for ever;
    I will betroth you in^[d] righteousness and justice,
    in^[e] love and compassion.
²⁰ I will betroth you in^[f] faithfulness,
    and you will acknowledge the Lord.

²¹ ‘In that day I will respond,’
    declares the Lord –
‘I will respond to the skies,
    and they will respond to the earth;
²² and the earth will respond to the grain,
    the new wine and the olive oil,
    and they will respond to Jezreel.^[g]
23 I will plant her for myself in the land;
    I will show my love to the one I called “Not my loved one”.^[h]
I will say to those called “Not my people”,^[i] “You are my people”;
    and they will say, “You are my God.”’