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2 : 1 Say to your brothers,You are my people,and to your sisters,You have received mercy.
2 : 2 Plead with your mother, plead&emdash;forshe is not my wife,and I am not her husband&emdash;that she put awayher whoring from her face,and her adultery from between her breasts;
2 : 3 lestI strip her nakedand make her asin the day she was born,andmake her like a wilderness,and make her like a parched land,and kill her with thirst.
2 : 4 Upon her children also I will have no mercy,because they are children of whoredom.
2 : 5 Fortheir mother has played the whore;she who conceived them has acted shamefully.Forshe said,I will go after my lovers,whogive me my bread and my water,my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.
2 : 6 ThereforeI will hedge up herway with thorns,andI will build a wall against her,so that she cannot find her paths.
2 : 7 She shall pursue her loversbut not overtake them,and she shall seek thembut shall not find them.Then she shall say,I will go and return tomy first husband,for it was better for me then than now.
2 : 8 Andshe did not knowthat it wasI who gave herthe grain, the wine, and the oil,and who lavished onher silver and gold,which they used for Baal.
2 : 9 ThereforeI will take backmy grain in its time,and my wine in its season,andI will take away my wool and my flax,which were to cover her nakedness.
2 : 10 NowI will uncover her lewdnessin the sight of her lovers,and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.
2 : 11 And I will put an end to all her mirth,her feasts, hernew moons, herSabbaths,and all herappointed feasts.
2 : 12 AndI will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,of which she said,These aremy wages,which my lovers have given me.I will make them a forest,and the beasts of the field shall devour them.
2 : 13 AndI will punish her forthe feast days of the Baalswhen she burned offerings to themandadorned herself with her ring and jewelry,and went after her loversand forgot me, declares theLord.
2 : 14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her,andbring her into the wilderness,andspeak tenderly to her.
2 : 15 And there I will give her her vineyardsand make the Valley of Achora door of hope.And there she shall answeras in the days of her youth,as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.
2 : 16 Andin that day, declares theLord, you will call meMy Husband,and no longer will you call meMy Baal.
2 : 17 ForI will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more.
2 : 18 AndI will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground. AndI will abolishthe bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down insafety.
2 : 19 And I will betroth you to meforever.I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.
2 : 20 I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. Andyou shall know theLord.
2 : 21 Andin that dayI will answer, declares theLord,I will answer the heavens,and they shall answer the earth,
2 : 22 and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil,and they shall answerJezreel,
2 : 23 andI will sow her for myself in the land.AndIwill have mercy on No Mercy,andI will say to Not My People,You are my people;and he shall say,You are my God.