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² "Plead with your mother, plead—
    for ^(c)she is not my wife,
    and I am not her husband—
that she put away ^(d)her whoring from her face,
    and her adultery from between her breasts;
³ lest ^(e)I strip her naked
    and make her as ^(f)in the day she was born,
and ^(g)make her like a wilderness,
    and make her like a parched land,
    and kill her with thirst.
^4 (h)Upon her children also I will have no mercy,
    ⁽ⁱ⁾because they are children of whoredom.
⁵ For ^(j)their mother has played the whore;
    she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For ^(k)she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
    who ^(l)give me my bread and my water,
    my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.'
⁶ Therefore ^(m)I will hedge up her^[d] way with thorns,
    and ⁽ⁿ⁾I will build a wall against her,
    so that she cannot find her paths.
⁷ She shall pursue her lovers
    but not overtake them,
and she shall seek them
    but shall not find them.
^(o)Then she shall say,
    ‘I will go and return to ^(p)my first husband,
    ^(q)for it was better for me then than now.'
⁸ And ^(r)she did not know
    that it was ^(s)I who gave her
    ^(t)the grain, the wine, and the oil,
and who lavished on ^(u)her silver and gold,
    ^(v)which they used for Baal.
⁹ Therefore ^(w)I will take back
    my grain in its time,
    and my wine in its season,
and ^(x)I will take away my wool and my flax,
    which were to cover her nakedness.
¹⁰ Now ^(y)I will uncover her lewdness
    in the sight of her lovers,
    and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.
^11 (z)And I will put an end to all her mirth,
    her feasts, her ^(aa)new moons, her ^(ab)Sabbaths,
    and all her ^(ac)appointed feasts.
¹² And ^(ad)I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,
    ^(ae)of which she said,
‘These are ^(af)my wages,
    which my lovers have given me.'
I will make them a forest,
    ^(ag)and the beasts of the field shall devour them.
¹³ And ^(ah)I will punish her for ^(ai)the feast days of the Baals
    when she burned offerings to them
and ^(aj)adorned herself with her ring and jewelry,
    and went after her lovers
    and forgot me, declares the Lord.

¹⁴ "Therefore, behold, I will allure her,
    and ^(ak)bring her into the wilderness,
    and ^(al)speak tenderly to her.
¹⁵ And there I will give her her vineyards
    and make the Valley of Achor^[e] a door of hope.
And there she shall answer ^(am)as in the days of her youth,
    as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.

²¹ "And ^(aw)in that day ^(ax)I will answer, declares the Lord,
    I will answer the heavens,
    and they shall answer the earth,
²² and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil,
    and they shall answer ^(ay)Jezreel,^[g]
23     and ^(az)I will sow her for myself in the land.
And ^(ba)I ^(bb)will have mercy on No Mercy,^[h]
    and ^(bc)I will say to Not My People,^{[i] (bd)}‘You are my people';
    and he shall say, ‘You are my God.'"