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Yahweh is speaking about Israel.
So I am going to win her back
AT: "I, Yahweh, will bring her back to me"
and the Valley of Achor as a door of hope
Yahweh is waiting for his people to confess their sin of idolatry and follow him. This is Yahweh's hope for his people. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
She will answer me there as she did in the days of her youth, as in the days that she came out of the land of Egypt
Yahweh hopes that the nation of Israel will repent and again choose to worship him as their God. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)