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

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

²¹ “In that day I will respond,”
    declares the Lord—
“I will respond^(Q) 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,^(R)
    and they will respond to Jezreel.^[g](S)
23 I will plant^(T) her for myself in the land;
    I will show my love to the one I called ‘Not my loved one.^[h](U)’
I will say to those called ‘Not my people,^[i]’ ‘You are my people’;^(V)
    and they will say, ‘You are my God.^(W)’”

⁹ I will not carry out my fierce anger,^(A)
    nor will I devastate^(B) Ephraim again.
For I am God, and not a man^(C)—
    the Holy One^(D) among you.
    I will not come against their cities.
¹⁰ They will follow the Lord;
    he will roar^(E) like a lion.^(F)
When he roars,
    his children will come trembling^(G) from the west.^(H)
11 They will come from Egypt,
    trembling like sparrows,
    from Assyria,^(I) fluttering like doves.^(J)
I will settle them in their homes,”^(K)
    declares the Lord.

¹³ Pains as of a woman in childbirth^(A) come to him,
    but he is a child without wisdom;
when the time^(B) arrives,
    he doesn’t have the sense to come out of the womb.^(C)

¹⁴ “I will deliver this people from the power of the grave;^(A)
    I will redeem them from death.^(B)
Where, O death, are your plagues?
    Where, O grave, is your destruction?^(C)

“I will have no compassion,

⁸ Ephraim, what more have I^[a] to do with idols?^(A)
    I will answer him and care for him.
I am like a flourishing juniper;^(B)
    your fruitfulness comes from me.”