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| 1Say to your brothers, “You are my people,” and to your sisters, “You have received mercy.” | 1 So call your brothers 'Ammi,' and your sisters 'Ruhamah.'" |
| 2“Plead with your mother, plead— for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband— that she put away her whoring from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts; | 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. |
| 3lest I strip her naked and make her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and make her like a parched land, and kill her with thirst. | 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. |
| 4Upon her children also I will have no mercy, because they are children of whoredom. | 4Furthermore, I'll not show pity on her children, since they are children of prostitution. |
| 5For their mother has played the whore; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’ | 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.' |
| 6Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, so that she cannot find her paths. | 6"Look how I'm blocking her path with thorns and building a wall to hinder her, so she can't find her way. |
| 7She shall pursue her lovers but not overtake them, and she shall seek them but shall not find them. Then she shall say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better for me then than now.’ | 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.' |
| 8And she did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil, and who lavished on her silver and gold, which they used for Baal. | 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. |
| 9Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my wine in its season, and I will take away my wool and my flax, which were to cover her nakedness. | 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. |
| 10Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one shall rescue her out of my hand. | 10So now I'll reveal her lewdness to the eyes of her lovers, and no man will rescue her from my control. |
| 11And I will put an end to all her mirth, her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her appointed feasts. | 11I'll put a stop to her mirth, along with her celebrations, her New Moons, her Sabbaths, and all of her festive assemblies. |
| 12And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, ‘These are my wages, which my lovers have given me.’ I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall devour them. | 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.' |
| 13And I will punish her for the feast days of the Baals when she burned offerings to them and adorned herself with her ring and jewelry, and went after her lovers and forgot me, declares the LORD. | 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“Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her. | 14"Therefore, look! I will now allure her. I will make her go out to the wilderness, and will speak to her heart. |
| 15And there I will give her her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt. | 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“And in that day, declares the LORD, you will call me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer will you call me ‘My Baal.’ | 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'. |
| 17For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more. | 17I will remove the names of the Baals from her vocabulary — they will not be remembered by their names anymore. |
| 18And I 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. And I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety. | 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. |
| 19And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. | 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. |
| 20I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the LORD. | 20I will make you my wife because of my faithfulness, and you will know the LORD. |
| 21“And in that day I will answer, declares the LORD, I will answer the heavens, and they shall answer the earth, | 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. |
| 22and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil, and they shall answer Jezreel, | 22The earth will respond with grain, new wine, and oil, and they will respond to Jezreel. |
| 23and I will sow her for myself in the land. And I will have mercy on No Mercy, and I will say to Not My People, ‘You are my people’; and he shall say, ‘You are my God.’” | 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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