Get Right — Fed RightThe context has to do with backsliding, unfaithfulness, treachery and wandering (or as the passage refers to her/them as gadding/going about with no purpose). I think Chapter 3 helps us see the picture and emphasis on the new thing God's referring to... it was foreign or shameful for a woman to "come back" to her husband if she ran off with other lovers. And when a divorce was given and she took on a new man, the law forbid the first husband to take her back (it would defile the land). But God said he would take her (Israel/Judah/Church back, in spite of her unfaithfulness. Though He wrote her a divorce... and sending her into the dispersion/Babylon He would take her back (also pictured in Hosea).So "the woman shall come back to the man..." in this new thing under this new covenant God of grace that He showing them and will fulfill in Christ. And this message was a message of hope... grace was freeing them from the bondage of the law. This word was truth that would free a woman from wandering in hopelessness because of her past... grace would cover her sins and bring her back home. (