Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.
However, one important aspect of God's dealing with his once "chosen people" (as identified with the sinful nation) remained to be prophesied. What would be the status of the divorced Israel afterward?  Since they were not to be "re-married" to Jehovah, what would be their status during the interim and afterwards?  That was dramatically prophesied in  Hosea 3 under the figure of Hosea's purchase of Gomer out of slavery and keeping her shut up in his house until she should repent, but without conjugal privileges, the same representing that God would indeed continue to be concerned with Israel, but no longer as his wife or "chosen people."  That status would belong to the people of the new covenant, the new Israel of God in the church of Jesus Christ.