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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1 So call your brothers 'Ammi,' and your sisters 'Ruhamah.'" |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Call your mother to account, call her— for she is not my wife, and I'm not her husband. Let her do away with her seductive looks and remove her adultery from between her breasts. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Otherwise, I'll strip her naked— as she was on the day she was born— make her like a wilderness, turn her into a parched land, and cause her to die of thirst. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Furthermore, I'll not show pity on her children, since they are children of prostitution. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Indeed, their mother has committed prostitution— the one who has been conceiving them has acted disgracefully— when she said, 'I'm going after my lovers, who provide me food and water, as well as my wool, my flax, my oil, and my wine.' |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"Look how I'm blocking her path with thorns and building a wall to hinder her, so she can't find her way. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7She will pursue her lovers, but she won't catch up with them. She will seek them, but she won't find them. Then she will say, 'I'll go back and return to my first husband, because it was better for me then than now.' |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8She didn't recognize that it was I who provided her grain, wine, and oil, and it was I who gave her silver, while they crafted gold for Baal. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"Therefore I'll return and take back my grain at harvest time and my new wine in its season. I'll take back my wool and my flax that was to have covered her nakedness. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10So now I'll reveal her lewdness to the eyes of her lovers, and no man will rescue her from my control. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11I'll put a stop to her mirth, along with her celebrations, her New Moons, her Sabbaths, and all of her festive assemblies. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12I'll destroy her vines and her fig trees, about which she said, 'These are the earnings that my lovers paid me. I'll make them grow into a forest, and the wild animals will eat from them.' |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13I'll punish her for the time she has devoted to the Baals, to whom she burned incense, and for whom she put on her earrings and jewels so she could go after her lovers and forget me," declares the LORD. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"Therefore, look! I will now allure her. I will make her go out to the wilderness, and will speak to her heart. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15There I will restore her vineyards to her, and the Valley of Achor will become a doorway to hope. There she will respond as she did in her youth, when she came up from Egypt." |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"It will come about at that time," declares the LORD, "that you will address me as 'My husband,' and you will no longer call me 'My master'. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17I will remove the names of the Baals from her vocabulary — they will not be remembered by their names anymore. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18I will make a covenant with them at that time, a covenant with the wild animals of the field, with the birds of the air, and with the creatures of the ground. I will banish the battle bow, the sword, and war from the earth. I will cause my people to lie down where it is safe. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19I will make you my wife forever— I will make you my wife in a way that is righteous, in a manner that is just, by a love that is gracious, and by a motive that is mercy. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20I will make you my wife because of my faithfulness, and you will know the LORD. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"It will come about at that time that I will respond," declares the LORD, "I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22The earth will respond with grain, new wine, and oil, and they will respond to Jezreel. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23I will plant my people in the land for myself. I will show mercy on her who has received no mercy I will say to those who are not my people, 'You are my people!' and they will say, 'You are my God.'" |
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