Dual Panel1Then you will call <0559> your brother <0251>, “My People <05971>” (Ammi)! You will call your sister <0269>, “Pity” (Ruhamah <07355>)!
2Plead <07378> earnestly <07378> with your mother <0517> (for <03588> she <01931> is not <03808> my wife <0802>, and I <0595> am not <03808> her husband <0376>), so that she might put an end to <05493> her adulterous <05005> lifestyle <06440> <02183>, and turn away from her sexually immoral behavior <07699>.
3Otherwise <06435>, I will strip <06584> her naked <06174>, and expose <03322> her like she was when <03117> she was born <03205>. I will turn <07760> her land into a wilderness <04057> and make <07896> her country a parched <06723> land <0776>, so that I might kill <04191> her with thirst <06772>.
4I will have no <03808> pity <07355> on her children <01121>, because <03588> they <01992> are children <01121> conceived in adultery <02183>.
5For <03588> their mother <0517> has committed adultery <02181>; she who conceived <02029> them has acted shamefully <03001>. For <03588> she said <0559>, “I will seek out <0310> <01980> my lovers <0157>; they are the ones who give <05414> me my bread <03899> and my water <04325>, my wool <06785>, my flax <06593>, my olive oil <08081>, and my wine <08250>.
6Therefore <03651>, I will soon <02005> fence her in <07753> with thorns <05518>; I will wall <01448> <01443> her in so that she cannot <03808> find <04672> her way <05410>.
7Then she will pursue <07291> her lovers <0157>, but she will not <03808> catch <05381> them; she will seek <01245> them, but she will not <03808> find <04672> them. Then she will say <0559>, “I will go <01980> back <07725> to <0413> my husband <0376>, because <03588> I was better <02896> off then <0227> than I am now <06258>.”
8Yet until now she has refused <03808> to acknowledge <03045> that <03588> I <0595> was the one who gave <05414> her the grain <01715>, the new wine <08492>, and the olive oil <03323>; and that it was I who lavished <07235> on her the silver <03701> and gold <02091>– which they used <06213> in worshiping Baal <01168>!
9Therefore <03651>, I will take <03947> back <07725> my grain <01715> during the harvest time <06256> and my new wine <08492> when it ripens <04150>; I will take away <05337> my wool <06785> and my flax <06593> which I had provided in order to clothe <03680> her <06172>.
10Soon <06258> I will expose <01540> her lewd nakedness <05040> in front of her lovers <0157>, and no <03808> one <0376> will be able to rescue <05337> her from me!
11I will put an end <07673> to all <03605> her celebration: her annual religious festivals <02282>, monthly new moon <02320> celebrations <04885>, and weekly Sabbath <07676> festivities– all <03605> her appointed festivals <04150>.
12I will destroy <08074> her vines <01612> and fig trees <08384>, about which <0834> she said <0559>, “These <01992> are my wages <0866> for prostitution that <0834> my lovers <0157> gave <05414> to me!” I will turn <07760> her cultivated vines and fig trees into an uncultivated thicket <03293>, so that wild <07704> animals <02416> will devour <0398> them.
13“I will punish <06485> her for <05921> the festival days <03117> when <0834> she burned incense <06999> to the Baal <01168> idols; she <01992> adorned <05710> herself with earrings <05141> and jewelry <02484>, and went <01980> after <0310> her lovers <0157>, but she forgot <07911> me!” says <05002> the Lord <03068>.
14However <03651>, in the future I <0595> will allure <06601> her; I will lead <01980> her back <01980> into the wilderness <04057>, and speak <01696> tenderly <03820> to <05921> her.
15From there <08033> I will give back <05414> her vineyards <03754> to her, and turn the “Valley <06010> of Trouble <05911>” into an “Opportunity <06607> for Hope <08615>.” There <08033> she will sing <06030> as she did when <03117> she was young <05271>, when <03117> she came up <05927> from the land <0776> of Egypt <04714>.
16“At that <01931> time <03117>,” declares <05002> the Lord <03068>, “you will call <07121>, ‘My husband <0376>’; you will never <03808> again <05750> call <07121> me, ‘My master <01180>.’
17For I will remove <05493> the names <08034> of the Baal <01168> idols from your lips <06310>, so that you will never <03808> again <05750> utter <02142> their names <08034>!”
18“At that time I will make <03772> a covenant <01285> for them with <05973> the wild <07704> animals <02416>, the birds <05775> of the air <08064>, and the creatures that crawl <07431> on the ground <0127>. I will abolish <07665> the warrior’s bow <07198> and sword <02719> –that is, every weapon of warfare <04421>– from <04480> the land <0776>, and I will allow them to live <07901> securely <0983>.”
19I will commit myself to you <0781> forever <05769>; I will commit myself to you <0781> in righteousness <06664> and justice <04941>, in steadfast love <02617> and tender compassion <07356>.
20I will commit myself to you <0781> in faithfulness <0530>; then you will acknowledge <03045> the Lord <03068>.”
21“At that time <03117>, I <01931> will willingly respond <06030>,” declares <05002> the Lord <03068>. “I will respond <06030> to the sky <08064>, and the sky <01992> will respond <06030> to the ground <0776>;
22then the ground <0776> will respond <06030> to the grain <01715>, the new wine <08492>, and the olive oil <03323>; and they <01992> will respond <06030> to ‘God Plants’ (Jezreel <03157>)!
23Then I will plant <02232> her as my own in the land <0776>. I will have pity <07355> on ‘No <03808> Pity <07355>’ (Lo-Ruhamah). I will say <0559> to ‘Not <03808> My People <05971>’ (Lo-Ammi), ‘You <0859> are my people <05971>!’ And he <01931> will say <0559>, ‘You are my God <0430>!’”