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² Rebuke your mother; rebuke her.^(C1)
For she is not my wife and I am not her husband.^(C2)
Let her remove the promiscuous look from her face^(C3)
and her adultery from between her breasts.³ Otherwise, I will strip her naked^(C1)
and expose her as she was on the day of her birth.
I will make her like a desert^(C2)
and like a parched land,
and I will let her die of thirst.^(C3)4 I will have no compassion on her children^(C1)
because they are the children of promiscuity.⁵ Yes, their mother is promiscuous;
she conceived them and acted shamefully.^(C1)
For she thought, “I will follow my lovers,^(C2)
the men who give me my food and water,
my wool and flax, my oil and drink.”^(C3)6 Therefore, this is what I will do:
I will block her^(F1) way^(C1) with thorns;^(C2)
I will enclose her with a wall,
so that she cannot find her paths.^(C3)7 She will pursue her lovers but not catch them;^(C1)
she will look for them but not find them.
Then she will think,
“I will go back to my former husband,^(C2)
for then it was better for me than now.”^(C3)8 She does not recognize^(C1)
that it is I who gave her the grain,^(C2)
the new wine, and the fresh oil.
I lavished silver and gold on her,
which they used for Baal.⁹ Therefore, I will take back my grain in its time^(C1)
and my new wine in its season;
I will take away my wool and linen,
which were to cover her nakedness.¹⁰ Now I will expose her shame^(C1)
in the sight of her lovers,
and no one will rescue her from my power.¹¹ I will put an end to all her celebrations:^(C1)
her feasts,^(C2) New Moons,^(C3) and Sabbaths—
all her festivals.¹² I will devastate her vines and fig trees.^(C1)
She thinks that these are her wages
that her lovers have given her.
I will turn them into a thicket,^(C2)
and the wild animals will eat them.^(C3)13 And I will punish her for the days of the Baals,^(C1)
to which she burned incense.^(C2)
She put on her rings and her jewelry^(C3)
and followed her lovers,
but she forgot me.^(C4)

¹⁴ Therefore, I am going to persuade her,
lead her to the wilderness,^(C1)
and speak tenderly to her.^(F1)15 There I will give her vineyards back to her^(C1)
and make the Valley of Achor^(F1)(C2)
into a gateway of hope.
There she will respond as she did
in the days of her youth,^(C3)
as in the day she came out of the land of Egypt.¹⁶ In that day—this is the Lord’s declaration—
you will call me, “My husband,”^(C1)
and no longer call me, “My Baal.”^(F1)
17 For I will remove the names of the Baals
from her mouth;
they will no longer be remembered by their names.¹⁸ On that day I will make a covenant for them
with the wild animals, the birds of the sky,
and the creatures that crawl on the ground.^(C1)
I will shatter bow, sword,
and weapons of war in the land^(F1)(C2)
and will enable the people to rest securely.^(C3)19 I will take you to be my wife forever.^(C1)
I will take you to be my wife in righteousness,
justice, love, and compassion.^(C2)20 I will take you to be my wife in faithfulness,
and you will know the Lord.^(C1)21 On that day I will respond^(C1)—this is the Lord’s declaration.
I will respond to the sky,
and it will respond to the earth.
²² The earth will respond to the grain,^(C1)
the new wine, and the fresh oil,
and they will respond to Jezreel.²³ I will sow her^(F1) in the land for myself,^(C1)
and I will have compassion^(C2)
on Lo-ruhamah;
I will say to Lo-ammi:^(C3)
You are my people,^(C4)
and he will say, “You are my God.”