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1 Say ye unto your brethren, Am­mi; and to your sis­ters, Ruhamah. 2 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; 3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilder­ness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. 4 And I will not have mer­cy upon her chil­dren; for they be the chil­dren of whore­doms. 5 For their moth­er hath played the har­lot: she that con­ceived them hath done shame­ful­ly: for she said, I will go af­ter my lovers, that give me my bread and my wa­ter, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink. 6 There­fore, be­hold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. 7 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. 8 For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and mul­ti­plied her sil­ver and gold, which they pre­pared for Baal. 9 There­fore will I re­turn, and take away my corn in the time there­of, and my wine in the sea­son there­of, and will re­cov­er my wool and my flax given to cov­er her naked­ness. 10 And now will I dis­cov­er her lewd­ness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall de­liv­er her out of mine hand. 11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sab­baths, and all her solemn feasts. 12 And I will de­stroy her vines and her fig trees, where­of she hath said, These are my re­wards that my lovers have giv­en me: and I will make them a for­est, and the beasts of the field shall eat them. 13 And I will vis­it upon her the days of Baal­im, where­in she burned in­cense to them, and she decked her­self with her ear­rings and her jew­els, and she went af­ter her lovers, and for­gat me, saith the LORD. 14 There­fore, be­hold, I will al­lure her, and bring her into the wilder­ness, and speak com­fort­ably unto her. 15 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. 16 And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali. 17 For I will take away the names of Baal­im out of her mouth, and they shall no more be re­mem­bered by their name. 18 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 out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safe­ly. 19 And I will be­troth thee unto me for ev­er; yea, I will be­troth thee unto me in righ­teous­ness, and in judg­ment, and in lov­ingkind­ness, and in mer­cies. 20 I will even be­troth thee unto me in faith­ful­ness: and thou shalt know the LORD. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear the heav­ens, and they shall hear the earth; 22 And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel. 23 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, Thou art my peo­ple; and they shall say, Thou art my God.