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Israel’s Unfaithfulness Punished

a Say to your brothers, “You are my people,”b and to your sisters, “You have received mercy.”c

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Israel's Unfaithfulness Punished

Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.

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“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;

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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;

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lest 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.

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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.

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Upon her children also I will have no mercy,
because they are children of whoredom.

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And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.

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For 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.’

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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.

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Therefore I will hedge up herd way with thorns,
and I will build a wall against her,
so that she cannot find her paths.

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Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

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She 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.’

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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.

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And 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.

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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.

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Therefore 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.

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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.

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Now I will uncover her lewdness
in the sight of her lovers,
and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.

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And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.

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And I will put an end to all her mirth,
her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths,
and all her appointed feasts.

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I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.

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And 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.

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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.

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And 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.

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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.

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The Lord’s Mercy on Israel

“Therefore, behold, I will allure her,
and bring her into the wilderness,
and speak tenderly to her.

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God's Mercy to Israel

Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.

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And there I will give her her vineyards
and make the Valley of Achore 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.

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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.

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“And in that day, declares the Lord, you will call me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer will you call me ‘My Baal.’

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And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.

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For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more.

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For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.

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And 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 abolishf the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety.

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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.

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And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.

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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.

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I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the Lord.

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I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.

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“And in that day I will answer, declares the Lord,
I will answer the heavens,
and they shall answer the earth,

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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;

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and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil,
and they shall answer Jezreel,g

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And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.

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and I will sow her for myself in the land.
And I will have mercy on No Mercy,h
and I will say to Not My People,i ‘You are my people’;
and he shall say, ‘You are my God.’”

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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.

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