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No Compassion for Children of Harlotry

^1 (F1)Say to your brothers, "^(F2)Ammi," and to your sisters, "^(F3)Ruhamah."

² "Contend with your mother, ^(C1)contend,
For she is ^(C2)not my wife, and I am not her husband;
And let her remove her ^(C3)harlotry from her face
And her adultery from between her breasts,

³ Lest I strip her ^(C1)naked
And set her forth as on the ^(C2)day when she was born
And ^(C3)make her like a wilderness
And ^(F1)make her like dry land
And put her to death with ^(C4)thirst.

⁴ "Also, I will have no compassion on her children
Because they are ^(C1)children of harlotry.

⁵ "For their mother has ^(C1)played the harlot;
She who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, '^(C1)I will go after my lovers,
Who ^(C2)give me my bread and my water,
My wool and my flax, my ^(C3)oil and my drink.'

⁶ "Therefore, behold, I will ^(C1)hedge up ^(F1)her way with ^(C2)thorns,
And I will build ^(F2)a wall against her so that she cannot find her ^(C3)paths.

⁷ "So she will ^(C1)pursue her lovers, but she will not overtake them;
And she will seek them, but will not find them.
Then she will say, '^(C2)I will go, and I will return to my ^(C3)first husband,
For it was ^(C4)better for me then than now!'

⁸ "Now she does ^(C1)not know that it was ^(C2)I who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil,
And multiplied silver and gold for her,
Which they ^(F1)used for Baal.

⁹ "Therefore, I will ^(C1)take back My grain at ^(F1)harvest time
And My new wine in its season.
I will also deliver My wool and My flax from them
Given to cover her nakedness.

¹⁰ "So now I will ^(C1)uncover her lewdness
In the sight of her lovers,
And no one will deliver her out of My hand.

¹¹ "I will also ^(C1)cease all her joy,
Her ^(C2)feasts, her ^(C3)new moons, her sabbaths,
And all her appointed times.

¹² "And I will ^(C1)make desolate her vines and fig trees,
Of which she said, 'These are my wages
Which my lovers have given me.'
And I will ^(C2)make them a forest,
And the ^(C3)beasts of the field will devour them.

¹³ "So I will visit the ^(C1)days of the Baals upon her
When she used to ^(F1)(C2)offer offerings in smoke to them
And ^(C3)adorn herself with her ^(F2)earrings and jewelry
And go after her lovers, so that she ^(C4)forgot Me," declares Yahweh.

Yahweh's Faithful Betrothal

¹⁴ "Therefore, behold, I will allure her
^(C1)And bring her into the wilderness
And speak to her heart.

¹⁵ "Then I will give her her ^(C1)vineyards from there
And ^(C2)the valley of Achor as a door of hope.
And she will ^(F1)(C3)sing there as in the days of her youth,
As in the ^(C4)day when she came up from the land of Egypt.

¹⁶ "And it will be in that day," declares Yahweh,
"That you will call Me ^(F1)(C1)Ishi
And will no longer call Me ^(F2)Baali.

¹⁷ "So ^(C1)I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth
So that they will be remembered by their names no more.

¹⁸ "And in that day I will cut a covenant for them
With the ^(C1)beasts of the field,
The birds of the sky,
And the creeping things of the ground.
And I will ^(C2)break the bow, the sword, and war from the land,
And I will make them ^(C3)lie down in security.

¹⁹ "And I will ^(C1)betroth you to Me forever;
Indeed, I will betroth you to Me in ^(C2)righteousness and in justice,
In lovingkindness and in compassion,

²⁰ And I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness.
Then you will ^(C1)know Yahweh.

²¹ "And it will be in that day, that ^(C1)I will answer," declares Yahweh.
"I will answer the heavens, and they will answer the earth,

²² And the ^(C1)earth will answer the grain, the new wine, and the oil,
And they will answer ^(F1)Jezreel.

²³ "And I will ^(C1)sow her for Myself in the land.
^(C2)I will also have compassion on ^(F1)her who had not obtained compassion,
And ^(C3)I will say to ^(F2)those who were ^(C4)not My people,
'You are My people!'
And ^(F3)they will say, 'You are my God!'"