Hosea 2:14-23

Promises: restoration and covenant love

14 Therefore, I will charm her, and bring her into the desert, and speak tenderly to her heart.

15 From there I will give her vineyards, and make the Achor Valley a door of hope. There she will respond to me as in the days of her youth, like the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.

16 On that day, says the LORD, you will call me, "My husband," and no longer will you call me, "My Lord."

17 I will take away the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they will not be mentioned by name anymore.

18 On that day, I will make a covenant for them with the wild animals, the birds in the sky, and the creeping creatures of the fertile ground. I will do away with the bow, the sword, and war from the land; I will make you lie down in safety.

19 I will take you for my wife forever; I will take you for my wife in righteousness and in justice, in devoted love, and in mercy.

20 I will take you for my wife in faithfulness; and you will know the LORD.

21 On that day I will answer, says the LORD. I will answer the heavens and they will answer the earth.

22 The earth will answer the corn, the new wine, and the fresh oil, and they will answer Jezreel;

23 I will sow him for myself in the land; and I will have compassion on No Compassion, and I will say to Not My People, "You are my people"; and he will say, "You are my God."

Hosea 2:14-23 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO HOSEA 2

This chapter is an explanation of the former, proceeding upon the same argument in more express words. The godly Israelites are here called upon to lay before the body of the people their idolatry, ingratitude, obstinacy, and ignorance of the God of their mercies; and to exhort them to repentance, lest they should be stripped of all their good things, and be brought into great distress and difficulties; all their joy and comfort cease, and be exposed to shame and contempt, Ho 2:1-13, yet, notwithstanding, many gracious promises are made unto them, of their having the alluring and comfortable word of the Gospel; of a door of hope; of salvation being opened to them; of faith in the Lord, and affection to him as their husband; of the removal of all idolatry from them; of safety from all enemies; of their open espousal to Christ; of his hearing of their prayers, and giving them plenty of all good things; and of their multiplication, conversion, and covenant relation to God, Ho 2:14-23.