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14 Therefore, Look! I am going to allure her
    and bring her into the desert,
        and I will speak tenderly to her.[a]
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[b]
    a declaration of Yahweh—
        you will call me, “My husband;”[c]
        you will no longer call me, “My Baal.”[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:14 Literally “I will speak to her heart”
  2. Hosea 2:16 Literally, “And it will happen on that day”
  3. Hosea 2:16 Hebrew “Ishi”
  4. Hosea 2:16 Hebrew “Baali”