Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
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;
lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and cause her to die of thirst.
On her children I will have no mercy; for they are lewd children,
because their mother hath committed lewdness, their parent hath acted shamefully; for she said, I will follow my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my wine.
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and raise a wall, that she may not find her paths.
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.
For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they made into images of gold.
Therefore, I will take my corn in its time, and my new wine in its season; and I will recover my wool and my flax designed to cover her nakedness.
And I will expose her vileness before her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.
And I will cause all her mirth to cease: her feast-days, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
And I will destroy her vines and her fig-trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards which my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and decked herself with her rings and jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith Jehovah.
Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak to her heart.
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
And it shall be at that day, saith Jehovah, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali,
for I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
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 I will break and remove out of the earth; and will make them to lie down safely.
Yea, I will betroth thee to Myself in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness; and in mercies,
and I will betroth thee to Myself in faithfulness; and thou shalt know Jehovah.
And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith Jehovah, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;
and the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.
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, my people thou; and they shall say, my God.