2Rebuke your mother, Israel. Rebuke her, for she is not My wife, nor am I her husband. Tell her to remove the makeup of a prostitute from her face, and garments that expose her breasts, 3Otherwise, I will strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her like a desert wilderness, and a parched dry land, and slay her with thirst. 4And I will not have compassion upon her children; for they are the children of harlotry. 5For their mother has been unfaithful. She has conceived them in disgrace; for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my food, drink, wool, flax, and oil. 6Therefore, I will block her path with thorns, and hedge her in, that she shall not find her way. 7And she shall pursue her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but not find them. Then she shall say, ‘I will return to my first husband; for it was better with me then than now’. 8For she did not realize that I gave her everything she needed - grain, wine, oil, and much silver and gold, which she then used for Baal. 9Therefore I will take away My grain when it is ripe, and My wine in its season, and My wool and My flax that I have given to cover her nakedness. 10And now will I expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall rescue her out of My hand. 11I will also cause all her celebrations to end - her feast days, new moons, sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. 12And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, of which she has said, ‘These are my rewards that my lovers have given me’. And I will make them a forest thicket, and the beasts of the field shall eat them. 13And I will punish her for the days that she burned incense to Baalim, and decked herself with her earrings and jewels, and pursued her lovers, and forgot Me”, says the LORD.

14“Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her. 15And I will give her vineyards from there, 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. 16And on that day”, says the LORD, “you shall call Me Ishi (my husband); and shall no more call Me Baali (my master). 17For I will remove the names of Baalim (false gods) from her lips, and they shall no more be remembered by their name. 18And in that day will I make a covenant with them - the beasts of the field, birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground; and I will abolish the bow, the sword and the battle from the earth, and will cause them to lie down safely. 19And I will betroth you unto Me forever; yea, I will betroth you unto Me in righteousness, and in justice, and in loving-kindness, and compassion. 20I will even betroth you to Me (make you My wife) in faithfulness; and you shall know the LORD. 21And in that day”, says the LORD, “I will hear and respond from the heavens, and the heavens shall hear the earth; 22And the earth shall answer the thirsty calls from the grain, the grapevines, and the olive trees; and they shall respond to Jezreel, ‘God plants!’ 23And I will plant her for Myself in the land; and I will show love to the one I called ‘Not My loved one’, and mercy to her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to those who were not My people, “You are My people”; and they shall say, “You are my God.”