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III

The earth has yielded its harvest;
    God, our God, blesses us.(A)

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May God bless us still,
    so that all the ends of the earth(A) will fear him.(B)

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I will give you your rains in due season, so that the land will yield its crops, and the trees their fruit;(A)

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27 The trees of the field shall bear their fruits, and the land its crops, and they shall dwell securely on their own soil. They shall know that I am the Lord when I break the bars of their yoke and deliver them from the power of those who enslaved them.(A)

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27 The trees will yield their fruit(A) and the ground will yield its crops;(B) the people will be secure(C) in their land. They will know that I am the Lord, when I break the bars of their yoke(D) and rescue them from the hands of those who enslaved them.(E)

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23 On that day I will respond—oracle of the Lord
    I will respond to the heavens,
    and they will respond to the earth;
24 The earth will respond to the grain, and wine, and oil,
    and these will respond to Jezreel.

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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)

12 For there will be a sowing of peace:
    the vine will yield its fruit,
    the land will yield its crops,
    and the heavens[a] will yield their dew.

I will give all these things to the remnant of this people to possess.

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Footnotes

  1. 8:12 Vine…land…heavens: future prosperity, reversing the hardships of Hg 1:10.

12 “The seed will grow well, the vine will yield its fruit,(A) the ground will produce its crops,(B) and the heavens will drop their dew.(C) I will give all these things as an inheritance(D) to the remnant of this people.(E)

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