Hosea 2:14-3:5

New American Standard Bible

Restoration of Israel

¹⁴“Therefore, behold, I am going to persuade her,
^(A)Bring her into the wilderness,
And speak ^[a]kindly to her.
¹⁵Then I will give her her ^(B)vineyards from there,
And ^(C)the ^[b]Valley of Achor as a door of hope.
And she will ^[c]^(D)respond there as in the days of her youth,
As in the ^(E)day when she went up from the land of Egypt.
¹⁶And it will come about on that day,” declares the Lord,
“That you will call Me ^[d]^(F)my husband
And no longer call Me my ^[e]Baal.
¹⁷For ^(G)I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth,
So that they will no longer be ^[f]mentioned by their names.
¹⁸On that day I will also make a covenant for them
With the ^(H)animals of the field,
The birds of the sky,
And the crawling things of the ground.
And I will ^[g]^(I)eliminate the bow, the sword, and war from the land,
And will let them ^(J)lie down in safety.
¹⁹I will ^(K)betroth you to Me forever;
Yes, I will betroth you to Me in ^(L)righteousness and in justice,
In favor and in compassion,
²⁰And I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness.
Then you will ^(M)know the Lord.

²¹“And it will come about on that day that ^(N)I will respond,” declares the Lord.
“I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth,
²²And the ^(O)earth will respond to the grain, to the new wine, and to the oil,
And they will respond to ^[h]Jezreel.
²³I will ^(P)sow her for Myself in the land.
^(Q)I will also have compassion on ^[i]her who had not obtained compassion,
And ^(R)I will say to ^[j]those who were ^(S)not My people,
‘You are My people!’
And ^[k]they will say, ‘You are my God!’”

Hosea’s Redemption of Gomer

3 Then the Lord said to me, “Go again, love ^[l]a woman who is loved by her ^[m]husband, yet is committing adultery, ^(T)as the Lord loves the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love ^[n]raisin ^(U)cakes.” ²So I ^(V)purchased her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver, and a ^[o]homer and a ^[p]lethech of barley. ³Then I said to her, “You shall ^(W)live with me for many days. You shall not play the prostitute, nor shall you have another man; so I will also be toward you.” ⁴For the sons of Israel will live for many days ^(X)without a king or leader, ^(Y)without sacrifice or ^(Z)memorial stone, and without ^(AA)ephod or ^[q]^(AB)household idols. ⁵Afterward the sons of Israel will ^(AC)return and seek the Lord their God and ^(AD)David their king; and ^(AE)they will come trembling to the Lord and to His goodness in the last days.