⁷ How priceless your faithful love is, God!
People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.^(A)

⁸ The Lord will send his faithful love by day;^(A)
his song will be with me in the night—
a prayer to the God of my life.

¹⁴ Therefore, I am going to persuade her,
lead her to the wilderness,^(A)
and speak tenderly to her.^[a]
15 There I will give her vineyards back to her^(B)
and make the Valley of Achor^[b](C)
into a gateway of hope.
There she will respond as she did
in the days of her youth,^(D)
as in the day she came out of the land of Egypt.
¹⁶ In that day—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
you will call me “my husband”^(E)
and no longer call me “my Baal.”^[c]
17 For I will remove the names of the Baals
from her mouth;
they will no longer be remembered by their names.
¹⁸ On that day I will make a covenant for them
with the wild animals, the birds of the sky,
and the creatures that crawl on the ground.^(F)
I will shatter bow, sword,
and weapons of war in the land^[d](G)
and will enable the people to rest securely.^(H)
19 I will take you to be my wife forever.^(I)
I will take you to be my wife in righteousness,
justice, love, and compassion.^(J)
20 I will take you to be my wife in faithfulness,
and you will know the Lord.^(K)
21 On that day I will respond^(L)—
this is the Lord’s declaration.
I will respond to the sky,
and it will respond to the earth.
²² The earth will respond to the grain,^(M)
the new wine, and the fresh oil,
and they will respond to Jezreel.
²³ I will sow her^[e] in the land for myself,^(N)
and I will have compassion^(O)
on Lo-ruhamah;
I will say to Lo-ammi:^(P)
You are my people,^(Q)
and he will say, “You are my God.”