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1Say to your brothers, “Ammi,” and to your sisters, “Ruhamah.”[#2.1 2.3 in Heb; #2.1 That is, my people; #2.1 That is, pitied]
2Plead with your mother, plead—[#v 5 ; Isa 50.1; Hos 1.2; 4.5]
for she is not my wife,
and I am not her husband—
that she put away her prostitution from her face
and her adultery from between her breasts,
3or I will strip her naked[#Isa 32.13, 14; Ezek 16.7, 22, 39; Am 8.11]
and expose her as in the day she was born
and make her like a wilderness
and turn her into a parched land
and kill her with thirst.
4Upon her children also I will have no pity,[#Jer 13.14; Ezek 8.18]
because they are children of prostitution.
5For their mother has prostituted herself;[#Isa 1.21; Jer 3.1, 2, 6; 44.17, 18]
she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, “I will go after my lovers;
they give me my bread and my water,
my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.”
6Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns,[#Job 3.23; 19.8; Hos 9.6; 10.8; #2.6 Gk Syr: Heb your]
and I will build a wall against her
so that she cannot find her paths.
7She shall pursue her lovers[#Jer 2.2; 3.1; Ezek 16.8; Hos 13.6]
but not overtake them,
and she shall seek them
but shall not find them.
Then she shall say, “I will go
and return to my first husband,
for it was better with me then than now.”
8She did not know[#Isa 1.3; Ezek 16.19; Hos 8.4]
that it was I who gave her
the grain, the wine, and the oil
and who lavished upon her silver
and gold that they used for Baal.
9Therefore I will take back
my grain in its time
and my wine in its season,
and I will take away my wool and my flax,
which were to cover her nakedness.
10Now I will uncover her shame[#Ezek 16.37]
in the sight of her lovers,
and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.
11I will put an end to all her mirth,[#Isa 1.13, 14; Jer 7.34; 16.9; Am 8.10]
her festivals, her new moons, her Sabbaths,
and all her appointed festivals.
12I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,[#v 5 ; Isa 5.5; Hos 13.8]
of which she said,
“These are my pay,
which my lovers have given me.”
I will make them a forest,
and the wild animals shall devour them.
13I will punish her for the festival days of the Baals,[#Ezek 16.12, 17; Hos 4.6; 8.14; 13.6]
to whom she offered incense
and decked herself with her rings and jewelry
and went after her lovers
and forgot me, says the Lord .
14Therefore, I will now allure her[#Ezek 20.33–38]
and bring her into the wilderness
and speak tenderly to her.
15From there I will give her her vineyards[#Ex 15.1, 2; Josh 7.26; Jer 2.2; Ezek 28.25, 26; Hos 11.1]
and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope.
There she shall respond as in the days of her youth,
as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.
16On that day, says the Lord , you will call me “my husband,” and no longer will you call me “my Baal.”[#2.16 That is, “my master”]
17For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be mentioned by name no more.[#v 13; Ex 23.13; Josh 23.7; Ps 16.4; Zech 13.2]
18I will make for you a covenant on that day with the wild animals, the birds of the air, and the creeping things of the ground, and I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety.[#Job 5.23; Ps 46.9; Isa 11.6–9; Ezek 34.25; #2.18 Heb them; #2.18 Heb break; #2.18 Heb them]
19And I will take you for my wife forever; I will take you for my wife in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.[#Isa 1.27; 62.4, 5; Jer 3.14]
20I will take you for my wife in faithfulness, and you shall know the Lord .[#Hos 6.6; 13.4]
21On that day I will answer, says the Lord ,
I will answer the heavens,
and they shall answer the earth,
22and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil,[#Jer 31.12; Joel 2.19]
and they shall answer Jezreel,
23and I will sow him for myself in the land.[#Jer 31.27; Hos 1.6, 9, 10; Zech 13.9; Rom 9.25, 26; #2.23 Cn: Heb her]
And I will have pity on Lo-ruhamah,
and I will say to Lo-ammi, “You are my people,”
and he shall say, “You are my God.”