^{1 3} Say ye to your brothers, Ammi^*; and to your sisters, Ruchamah^*.

^{2 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,

^{3 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.

^{4 6} And I will not have·​·compassion·​·on her sons, for they^◦ are the sons of harlotries.

^{5 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.

^{6 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.

^{7 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.

^{8 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.

^{9 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.

^{10 12} And now I will reveal her foolishness^* to the eyes of her lovers, and a man^◦ shall not rescue her from My hand.

^{11 13} And I will cause all her joy to cease, her festival, her new·​·moon, and her Sabbath, and all her solemn·​·occasions.

^{12 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.

^{13 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.

^{14 16} Therefore, behold, I^▵ will entice her, and cause her to go into the wilderness, and speak on her heart.

^{15 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.

^{16 18} And it shall be in that^◦ day, says^◦ Jehovah, that thou shalt call Me Ishi^*; and shalt not call Me Baali^* any·​·more.

^{17 19} And I will remove the names of Baalim from her mouth, and they shall not be remembered any·​·more by their name.

^{18 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.

^{19 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.

^{20 22} And I will betroth thee to Me in faithfulness; and thou shalt know Jehovah.

^{21 23} And it shall be in that^◦ day, I will answer, says^◦ Jehovah; I will answer the heavens, and they^◦ shall answer the earth;

^{22 24} and the earth shall answer the grain, and the must, and the olive·​·oil; and they^◦ shall answer Jezreel.

^{23 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.