This is next described, with all plainness, under the figure of Israel's early wanderings in the wilderness, but is emphasised as happening only for the end of the people's penitence and restoration. The new hope is so melodious that it carries the language into metre. _Therefore, lo! I am to woo her, and I will bring her to the wilderness,_ _And I will speak home to her heart._ _And from there I will give to her her vineyards,_ _And the Valley of Achor for a doorway of hope._ _And there she shall answer_ Me _as in the days of her youth,_ _And as the day when she came up from the land of Miṣraim._ To us the terms of this passage may seem formal and theological. But to every Israelite some of these terms must have brought back the days of his own wooing. _I will speak home to her heart_ is a forcible expression, like the German "an das Herz" or the sweet Scottish "it cam' up roond my heart," and was used in Israel as from man to woman when he won her.[485] But the other terms have an equal charm. The prophet, of course, does not mean that Israel shall be literally taken back to the desert. But he describes her coming Exile under that ancient figure, in order to surround her penitence with the associations of her innocency and her youth. By the grace of God, everything shall begin again as at first. The old terms _wilderness_, _the giving of vineyards_, _Valley of Achor_, are, as it were, the wedding ring restored. As a result of all this (whether the words be by Hosea or another),[486] _It shall be in that day--'tis Jehovah's oracle--that thou shalt call Me, My husband,_ _And thou shalt not again call Me, My Ba'al:_ _For I will take away the names of the Ba'alim from her mouth,_ _And they shall no more be remembered by their names._ There follows a picture of the ideal future, in which--how unlike the vision that now closes the Book of Amos!--moral and spiritual beauty, the peace of the land and the redemption of the people, are wonderfully mingled together, in a style so characteristic of Hosea's heart. It is hard to tell where the rhythmical prose passes into actual metre. _And I will make for them a covenant in that day with the wild beasts, and with the birds of the heavens, and with the creeping things of the ground; and the bow and the sword and battle will I break from the land, and I will make you to dwell in safety. And I will betroth thee to Me for ever, and I will betroth thee to Me in righteousness and in justice, in leal love and in tender mercies; and I will betroth thee to Me in faithfulness, and thou shalt know Jehovah._