“Therefore I am now going to allure her; I will lead her into the wilderness and speak tenderly to her.

There I will give her back her vineyards, and will make the Valley of Trouble a door of hope.

There she will respond as in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.

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“In that day,” declares the Lord, you will call me ‘my husband’; you will no longer call me ‘my master.’ I will remove the names of the Baals from her lips; no longer will their names be invoked. 

 

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. Bow and sword and battle I will abolish from the land, so that all may lie down in safety.

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I will betroth you to me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in love and compassion. I will betroth you in faithfulness, and you will acknowledge the Lord.

 

“In that day I will respond,” declares the Lord— 

“I will respond to the skies, and they will respond to the earth; and the earth will respond to the grain, the new wine and the olive oil, and they will respond to God plants.

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I will plant her for myself in the land; 

I will show my love to the one I called ‘Not my loved one.' 

I will say to those called ‘Not my people,’ ‘You are my people’; 

and they will say, ‘You are my God.’”

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Hosea 2:14-23