Say ye
unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters,
Ruhamah.
02 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not
my wife, neither am I her husband: let her
therefore put away her whoredoms out of her
sight, and her adulteries from between her
breasts;
03 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the
day that she was born, and make her as a
wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay
her with thirst.
04 And I will not have mercy upon her children;
for they be the children of whoredoms.
05 For their mother hath played the harlot: she
that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she
said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my
bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil
and my drink.
06 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way
with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not
find her paths.
07 And she shall follow after her lovers, but she
shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them,
but shall not find them: then shall she say, I
will go and return to my first husband; for then
was it better with me than now.
08 For she did not know that I gave her corn, and
wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and
gold, which they prepared for Baal.
09 Therefore will I return, and take away my corn
in the time thereof, and my wine in the season
thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax
given to cover her nakedness.
10 And now will I discover her lewdness in the
sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her
out of mine hand.
11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her
feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and
all her solemn feasts.
12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig
trees, whereof she hath said, These are my
rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will
make them a forest, and the beasts of the field
shall eat them.
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13 And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim,
wherein she burned incense to them, and she
decked herself with her earrings and her jewels,
and she went after her lovers, and forgat me,
saith the Lord.
14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and
bring her into the wilderness, and speak
comfortably unto her.
15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence,
and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and
she shall sing there, as in the days of her
youth, and as in the day when she came up out of
the land of Egypt.
16 And it shall be at that day, saith the Lord,
that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me
no more Baali.
17 For I will take away the names of Baalim out
of her mouth, and they shall no more be
remembered by their name.
18 And in that day will I make a covenant for
them with the beasts of the field and with the
fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of
the ground: and I will break the bow and the
sword and the battle out of the earth, and will
make them to lie down safely.
19 And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea,
I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and
in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in
mercies.
20 I will even betroth thee unto me in
faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, I will
hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens,
and they shall hear the earth;
22 And the earth shall hear the corn, and the
wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.
23 And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I
will have mercy upon her that had not obtained
mercy; and I will say to them which were not my
people, Thou art my people; and they shall say,
Thou art my God.
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