(“) Say of your brothers , ‘ My people , ’ and of your sisters , ‘ My loved one. ’
Rebuke your mother , rebuke her , for she is not My wife , and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.
Otherwise , I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land , and I will let her die of thirst.
- I will have no compassion on her children , because they are the children of adultery.
For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought , ‘ I will go after my lovers , who give me bread and water , wool and linen , oil and drink. ’
Therefore , behold , I will hedge up her path with thorns ; I will enclose her with a wall - - , so she cannot find her way.
She will pursue - her lovers but not catch them ; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will say , ... ‘ I will return to my first husband , for then I was better off than now. ’
For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave grain , new wine , and oil , who lavished silver and gold — which they crafted for Baal.
Therefore I will take back ... My grain in its time and My new wine in its season ; I will take away My wool and linen , which were (given) to cover - her nakedness.
And then I will expose - her lewdness in the sight of her lovers , and no one will deliver her out of My hands.
I will put an end to all her exultation : her feasts , New Moons , and Sabbaths — all her appointed feasts.
I will destroy her vines and fig trees , which she thinks - are the wages - paid by her lovers. So I will make them into a thicket , and the beasts of the field will devour them.
I will punish her - for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them , when she decked herself with rings and jewelry , and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot , ” declares the LORD.
“ Therefore , behold , I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness , and speak to her tenderly.
There - I will give back her vineyards - and make the Valley of Achor into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth , as in the day she came up out of Egypt.
- In that day , ” declares the LORD , “ you will call Me ‘ my Husband , ’ and no longer call ‘ my Master. ’
For I will remove - from her lips the names of the Baals ; no longer will their names be invoked.
On that day I will make a covenant with the beasts of the field (and) the birds of the air and the creatures that crawl on the ground. And I will abolish bow and sword and weapons of war in the land , and will make them lie down in safety.
So I will betroth you forever ; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice , in loving devotion and compassion.
And I will betroth you in faithfulness , and you will know - the LORD. ”
“ - On that day I will respond — ” declares the LORD — “ I will respond to the heavens , and they will respond to the earth.
And the earth will respond - to the grain , - to the new wine - and oil , and they will respond - to Jezreel.
And I will sow her in the land , and I will have compassion on ‘ No Compassion. ’ I will say to those (called) ‘ Not My People , ’ ‘ You are My people , ’ and they will say , ‘ You are my God. ’”