KJV Easy Read Bible 1Say youp to yourp brethren, Ammi; and to yourp sisters, Ruhamah. God’s Unfaithful People2Plead with yourp 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; serve other gods, be a harlot 3Lest 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. 4And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms. 5For their mother has played the harlot: she that conceived them has done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink. 6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. 7And 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. 8For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal. 9Therefore 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. take away 10And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of My hand. expose; immodesty, shamelessness 11I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. laughter 12And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she has 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. 13And 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 forgot Me, says the Lord. God’s Mercy on His People14Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably to her. 15And I will give her her vineyards from there, and the valley of A´chor 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 it shall be at that day, says the Lord, that you shall call Me Ishi; and shall call Me no more Baali. my husband; my lord 17For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name. 18And 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. agreement 19And I will betroth you to Me for ever; yea, I will betroth you to Me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. 20I will even betroth you to Me in faithfulness: and you shall know the Lord. 2 COR 11:2 21And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, says the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; respond, answer 22And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel. 23And I will sow her to 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, You are My people; and they shall say, You are my God. ROM 9:25; 1 PET 2:10 The Trusted King James in an Easy Read Format® is a registered trademarks of Whitaker Corporation. KJVERTM, Word of GodTM, Red Letter OldTM, Old Testament Direct Words of God in RedTM, King James Version Sword BibleTM, and SwordKJVTM are trademarked slogans of Whitaker Corporation. |
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