18. “And in that day I shall make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and with the creeping creatures of the ground, when bow, and sword, and battle I break from the earth. And I shall make them lie down in safety.
19. “And I shall take you as a bride unto Me forever, and take you as a bride unto Me in righteousness, and in right-ruling, and kindness and compassion.
20. “And I shall take you as a bride unto Me in trustworthiness, and you shall know יהוה.
21. “And it shall be in that day that I answer,” declares יהוה, “that I answer the heavens, and they answer the earth,
22. and the earth answer the grain and the new wine and the oil, and they answer Yizre‛ĕl.
23. “And I shall sow her for Myself in the earth, and I shall have compassion on her who had not obtained compassion. And I shall say to those who were not My people, ‘You are My people,’ while they say, ‘My Elohim!’ ”