Hosea 2:15

I will give her her vineyards from thence So soon as she has left the wilderness (-from thence"), Jehovah will restore to her the vineyards which he had taken away (Hosea 2:12).

the valley of Achor for a door of hope Whereas the first Israelites had to call their first encampment after crossing the Jordan the valley of Achor or -Troubling" (Joshua 7:26), their descendants shall find the same spot a starting point for a career of success. Another prophet praises the same valley for its fertility (Isaiah 65:10).

she shall sing there Or, -thereupon". Alluding to the songs of Moses and Miriam in Exodus 15:1 (see Hosea 2:21, where, as St Jerome with Jewish writers points out, the same verb is used of Miriam's -answering" the song of Moses). But antiphonal singing is not suitable here, and much less in Hosea 2:23 (where A. V. arbitrarily alters the rendering of the verb). Render, she shall respond there Theod. ἀποκριθήσεται, Aq. ὑπακούσει, which however St Jerome explains, -præcinentibus respondebit concinens". The heart of Israel shall be softened, and she shall be responsive to the divine call, as in -the days of her youth" (comp. Jeremiah 2:2), when she came out of Egypt.