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3 Say ye to your brothers , Ammi*; and to your sisters , Ruchamah*.
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4 Plead with your mother , plead, for she◦ is not My wife , and I▵ am not her husband ◦; and let her put ··aside her harlotries from her face , and her adulteries from between her breasts ,
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5 lest I strip her naked , and place◦ her as in the day of her birth , and set her as a wilderness , and put her as an arid land , and cause her to die with thirst.
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6 And I will not have··compassion··on her sons, for they◦ are the sons of harlotries.
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7 For their mother has committed··harlotry; she who conceived them has been shamed, 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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8 Therefore, behold, I will hedge ··up thy way with sirim*, and fence · her ·in with a fence , that she shall not find her trails.
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9 And she shall pursue her lovers , but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find ; and 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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10 And she◦ did not know that I▵ gave grain to her, and must*, and olive··oil, and multiplied her silver and gold , which* they made for Baal .
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11 Therefore will I return , and take My grain in its time , and My must in its season, and will rescue My wool and My flax to cover her nakedness .
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12 And now I will reveal her foolishness* to the eyes of her lovers , and a man ◦ shall not rescue her from My hand .
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13 And I will cause all her joy to cease, her festival, her new··moon , and her Sabbath , and all her solemn··occasions.
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14 And I will desolate her vine and her fig ··tree, of which she has said , These◦ are my hire◦* that my lovers have given me; and I will set them for a forest , and the animal of the field shall eat them.
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15 And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim , in which◦ she burned··incense to them◦, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewelry, and she went after her lovers , and Me she forgot , says ◦ Jehovah .
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16 Therefore, behold, I▵ will entice her, and cause her to go into the wilderness , and speak on her heart .
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17 And I will give to her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for an entrance of hope◦; and she shall answer there, as in the days of her youth , and as in the day when she went··up from the land of Egypt .
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18 And it shall be in that◦ day , says ◦ Jehovah , that thou shalt call Me Ishi*; and shalt not call Me Baali* any··more.
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19 And I will remove the names of Baalim from her mouth , and they shall not be remembered any··more by their name .
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20 And in that◦ day will I cut a covenant for them with the animal of the field , and with the fowl of the heavens , and with the creeping thing of the ground ; and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle from the earth , and will cause them to lie··down securely.
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21 And I will betroth thee to Me for eternity ; and I will betroth thee to Me in justice and in judgment , and in mercy and in compassions.
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22 And I will betroth thee to Me in faithfulness ; and thou shalt know Jehovah .
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23 And it shall be in that◦ day , I will answer , says ◦ Jehovah ; I will answer the heavens , and they◦ shall answer the earth ;
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24 and the earth shall answer the grain , and the must , and the olive··oil; and they◦ shall answer Jezreel.
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25 And I will sow her to Me in the earth ; and I will have··compassion··on her who had· not ·compassion; and I will say to him who was not My people, Thou◦ art My people; and he◦ shall say , Thou art my God .