[an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Call your brothers: My People and your sisters: Compassion. |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Rebuke your mother; rebuke her. For she is not My wife and I am not her husband. Let her remove the promiscuous look from her face and her adultery from between her breasts. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her as she was on the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and like a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4I will have no compassion on her children because they are the children of promiscuity. |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Yes, their mother is promiscuous; she conceived them and acted shamefully. For she thought, "I will go after my lovers, the men who give me my food and water, my wool and flax, my oil and drink." |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Therefore, this is what I will do: I will block her way with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so that she cannot find her paths. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will think," I will go back to my former husband, for then it was better for me than now." |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8She does not recognize that it is I who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil. I lavished silver and gold on her, which they used for Baal. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Therefore, I will take back My grain in its time and My new wine in its season; I will take away My wool and linen, which were to cover her nakedness. |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Now I will expose her shame in the sight of her lovers, and no one will rescue her from My hands. |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11I will put an end to all her celebrations: her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths-- all her festivals. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12I will devastate her vines and fig trees. She thinks that these are her wages that her lovers have given her. I will turn them into a thicket, and the wild animals will eat them. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13And I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, put on her rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers, but forgot Me. This is the LORD's declaration. |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Therefore, I am going to persuade her, lead her to the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her. |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15There I will give her vineyards back to her and make the Valley of Achor into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came out of the land of Egypt. |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16In that day-- this is the LORD's declaration-- you will call Me, "My husband," and no longer call Me, "My Baal." |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth; they will no longer be remembered by their names. |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18On that day I will make a covenant for them with the wild animals, the birds of the sky, and the creatures that crawl on the ground. I will shatter bow, sword, and weapons of war in the land and will enable the people to rest securely. |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19I will take you to be My wife forever. I will take you to be My wife in righteousness, justice, love, and compassion. |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20I will take you to be My wife in faithfulness, and you will know Yahweh. |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21On that day I will respond-- this is the LORD's declaration. I will respond to the sky, and it will respond to the earth. |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22The earth will respond to the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and they will respond to Jezreel. |
23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23I will sow her in the land for Myself, and I will have compassion on No Compassion; I will say to Not My People: You are My people, and he will say, "You are My God." |
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