¹ Say ye to your brethren: You are my people, and to your sister: Thou hast obtained mercy.

² Judge your mother, judge her: because she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her put away her fornications from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts.

³ Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born: and I will make her as a wilderness, and will set her as a land that none can pass through, and will kill her with drought.

⁴ And I will not have mercy on her children: for they are the children of fornications.

⁵ For their mother hath committed fornication, she that conceived them is covered with shame: 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.

⁶ Wherefore behold I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will stop it up with a wall, and she shall not find her paths.

⁷ And she shall follow after her lovers, and shall not overtake them: and she shall seek them, and shall not find, and she shall say: I will go, and return to my first husband, because it was better with me then, than now.

⁸ And she did not know that I gave her corn and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver, and gold, which they have used in the service of Baal.

⁹ Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in its season, and my wine in its season, and I will set at liberty my wool, and my flax, which covered her disgrace.

¹⁰ And now I will lay open her folly in the eyes of her lovers: and no man shall deliver her out of my hand:

¹¹ And I will cause all her mirth to cease, her solemnities, her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her festival times.

¹² And I will destroy her vines, and her fig trees, of which she said: These are my rewards, which my lovers have given me: and I will make her as a forest, and the beasts of the field shall devour her.

¹³ And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, to whom she burnt incense, and decked herself out with her earrings, and with her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith the Lord.

¹⁴ Therefore, behold I will allure her, and will lead her into the wilderness: and I will speak to her heart.

¹⁵ And I will give her vinedressers out of the same place, and the valley of Achor for an opening of hope: and she shall sing there according to the days of her youth, and according to the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁶ And it shall be in that day, saith the Lord, That she shall call me : My husband, and she shall call me no more Baali.

¹⁷ And I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and she shall no more remember their name.

¹⁸ And in that day I will make a covenant with them, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the air, and with the creeping things of the earth: and I will destroy the bow, and the sword, and war out of the land: and I will make them sleep secure.

¹⁹ And I will espouse thee to me for ever: and I will espouse thee to me in justice, and judgment, and in mercy, and in commiserations.

²⁰ And I will espouse thee to me in faith: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

²¹ 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.

²² And the earth shall hear the core, and the wine, and the oil, and these shall hear Jezrahel.

²³ And I will sow her unto me in the earth, and I will have mercy on her that was without mercy.

²⁴ And I will say to that which was not my people: Thou art my people: and they shall say: Thou art my God.

¹ This is the word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying:

² Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, saying: Write thee all the words that I have spoken to thee, in a book.

³ For behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Juda, saith the Lord: and I will cause them to return to the land which I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.

⁴ And these are the words that the Lord hath spoken to Israel and to Juda:

⁵ For thus saith the Lord: We have heard a voice of terror : there is fear and no peace.

⁶ Ask ye, and see if a man bear children ? why then have I seen every man with his hands on his loins, like a woman in labour, and all faces are turned yellow?

⁷ Alas, for that day is great, neither is there the like to it; and it Is the time of tribulation to Jacob, but he shall be saved out of it.

⁸ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst his bands: and strangers shall no more rule over him:

⁹ But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.

¹⁰ Therefore fear thou not, my servant Jacob, saith the Lord, neither be dismayed, O Israel: for behold, I will save thee from a country afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity: and Jacob shall return, and be at rest, and abound with all good things, and there shall be none whom he may fear:

¹¹ For I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee: for I will utterly consume all the nations, among which I have scattered thee: but I will not utterly consume thee: but I will chastise thee in judgment, that thou mayst not seem to thyself innocent.

¹² For thus saith the Lord: Thy bruise is incurable, thy wound is very grievous.

¹³ There is none to judge thy judgment to bind it up : thou hast no healing medicines.

¹⁴ All thy lovers have forgotten thee, and will not seek after thee: for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with a cruel chastisement: by reason of the multitude of thy iniquities, thy sins are hardened.

¹⁵ Why criest thou for thy affliction? thy sorrow is incurable: for the multitude of thy iniquity, and for thy hardened sins I have done these things to thee.

¹⁶ Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured: and all thy enemies shall be carried into captivity : and they that waste thee shall be wasted, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.

¹⁷ For I will close up thy scar, and will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord. Because they have called thee, O Sion, an outcast: This is she that hath none to seek after her.

¹⁸ Thus saith the Lord: Behold I bring back the captivity of the pavilions of Jacob, and will have pity on his houses, and the city shall be built in her place, and the temple shall be found according to the order thereof.

¹⁹ And out of them shall come forth praise, and the voice of them that play: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be made few : and I will glorify them, and they shall not be lessened.

²⁰ And their children shall be as from the beginning, and their assembly be permanent before me : and I will against all that afflict them.

²¹ And their leader shall be of themselves: and their prince shall come forth from the midst of them : and I will bring him near, and he shall come to me: for who is this that setteth his heart to approach to me, saith the Lord?

²² And you shall be my people: and I will be your God.

²³ Behold the whirlwind of the Lord, his fury going forth, a violent storm, it shall rest upon the head of the wicked.

²⁴ The Lord will not turn away the wrath of his indignation, till he have executed and performed the thought o his heart: in the latter days you shall understand these things.