For (A)behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and (B)you shall be tilled and sown.

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11 (A)The Lord of hosts is with us;
    the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah

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21 “And (A)in that day (B)I will answer, declares the Lord,
    I will answer the heavens,
    and they shall answer the earth,
22 and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil,
    and they shall answer (C)Jezreel,[a]
23     and (D)I will sow her for myself in the land.
And (E)I (F)will have mercy on No Mercy,[b]
    and (G)I will say to Not My People,[c] (H)‘You are my people’;
    and he shall say, ‘You are my God.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:22 Jezreel means God will sow
  2. Hosea 2:23 Hebrew Lo-ruhama
  3. Hosea 2:23 Hebrew Lo-ammi

34 And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, instead of being the desolation that it was in the sight of all who passed by.

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God's Everlasting Love

31 What then shall we say to these things? (A)If God is for us, who can be[a] against us?

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 8:31 Or who is

12 (A)For there shall be a sowing of peace. The vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its produce, (B)and the heavens shall give their dew. (C)And I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.

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10 (A)Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby (B)put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open (C)the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need. 11 I will rebuke (D)the devourer[a] for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the Lord of hosts.

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Footnotes

  1. Malachi 3:11 Probably a name for some crop-destroying pest or pests

19 (A)Is the seed yet in the barn? Indeed, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have yielded nothing. But from this day on (B)I will bless you.”

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18 “And in that day
(A)the mountains shall drip sweet wine,
    and the hills shall flow with milk,
and (B)all the streambeds of Judah
    shall flow with water;
(C)and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord
    and water the Valley of (D)Shittim.

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O Lord our God, you answered them;
    you were (A)a forgiving God to them,
    but (B)an avenger of their wrongdoings.

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