Hosea 2:19

"And I will betroth thee to me forever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in justice, and in loving-kindness, and in mercies. I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness; and thou shalt know Jehovah."

The triple betrothal here signals a marriage, not a remarriage to the apostate whore, but to a people of God who will exhibit the five Christian virtues of this passage: (1) righteousness; (2) justice; (3) loving-kindness; (4) mercies; and (5) faithfulness. As Hailey flatly declared: "The betrothal here indicates a new marriage based on the New Covenant."[50] Note the emphasis upon one of the great words of the passage in Jeremiah 31:31-35, "Thou shalt know Jehovah." In the light of the obvious truth here, there can no longer be any doubt whatever that the divorcement of Hosea 2:2 above was indeed effective and permanent. God, once the husband of Israel, will now become the husband of another, the new Israel.