Reading I
Hos 2:16, 17c-18, 21-22
And it shall be in that day, saith the Lord: That she shall call me: My husband, and she shall call me no more Baali.
And I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and she shall no more remember their name.
And in that day I will make a covenant with them, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the air, and with the creeping things of the earth: and I will destroy the bow, and the sword, and war out of the land: and I will make them sleep secure.
And it shall come to pass in that day: I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth.
And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil, and these shall hear Jezrahel.
