Look! I am on your side; I will turn toward you,(A) and you will be tilled and sown.

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I am concerned for you and will look on you with favor; you will be plowed and sown,(A)

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11 I will fill you with people and animals,(A) and they will increase and be fruitful. I will make you inhabited as you once were and make you better off than you were before. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.(B)

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11 I will increase the number of people and animals living on you, and they will be fruitful(A) and become numerous. I will settle people(B) on you as in the past(C) and will make you prosper more than before.(D) Then you will know that I am the Lord.

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23 I will sow her[a] in the land for Myself,(A)
and I will have compassion(B)
on No Compassion;
I will say(C) to Not My People:(D)
You are My people,(E)
and he will say, “You are My God.”

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:23 = Israel

23 I will plant(A) her for myself in the land;
    I will show my love to the one I called ‘Not my loved one.[a](B)
I will say to those called ‘Not my people,[b]’ ‘You are my people’;(C)
    and they will say, ‘You are my God.(D)’”

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:23 Hebrew Lo-Ruhamah (see 1:6)
  2. Hosea 2:23 Hebrew Lo-Ammi (see 1:9)