First Reading for 8th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B - Daily Catholic Mass Reading

Therefore, I will allure her now; I will lead her into the wilderness and speak persuasively to her.

Then I will give her the vineyards she had, and the valley of Achor as a door of hope. There she will respond as in the days of her youth, as on the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.

I will betroth you to me forever: I will betroth you to me with justice and with judgment, with loyalty and with compassion; I will betroth you to me with fidelity, and you shall know the Lord.