2 b Call c your brothers: My People

and your sisters: Compassion.

Israel’s Adultery Rebuked

2 Rebuke your mother; rebuke her. d

For she is not My wife and I am not her husband. e

Let her remove the promiscuous look from her face f

and her adultery from between her breasts.

3 Otherwise, I will strip her naked g

and expose her as she was on the day of her birth.

I will make her like a desert h

and like a parched land,

and I will let her die of thirst. i

4 I will have no compassion on her children j

because they are the children of promiscuity.

5 Yes, their mother is promiscuous;

she conceived them and acted shamefully. k

For she thought, “I will go after my lovers, l

the men who give me my food and water,

my wool and flax, my oil and drink.” m

6 Therefore, this is what I will do:

I will block her n way o with thorns; p

I will enclose her with a wall,

so that she cannot find her paths. q

7 She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; r

she will seek them but not find them.

Then she will think,

“I will go back to my former husband, s

for then it was better for me than now.” t

8 She does not recognize u

that it is I who gave her the grain, v

the new wine, and the oil.

I lavished silver and gold on her,

which they used for * Baal.

9 Therefore, I will take back My grain in its time w

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 x

in the sight of her lovers,

and no one will rescue her from My hands.

11 I will put an end to all her celebrations: y

her feasts, z New Moons, a and Sabbaths—

all her festivals.

12 I will devastate her vines and fig trees. b

She thinks that these are her wages

that her lovers have given her.

I will turn them into a thicket, c

and the wild animals will eat them. d

13 And I will punish her for the days of the Baals e

when she burned incense to them, f

put on her rings and jewelry, g

and went after her lovers,

but forgot Me. h

This is the Lord’s declaration.

Israel’s Adultery Forgiven

14 Therefore, I am going to persuade her,

lead her to the wilderness, i

and speak tenderly to her. j

15 There I will give her vineyards back to her k

and make the Valley of Achor l m

into a gateway of hope.

There she will respond as she did

in the days of her youth, n

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,” o

and no longer call Me, “My Baal.” p

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. q

I will shatter bow, sword,

and weapons of war in the land r s

and will enable the people to rest securely. t

19 I will take you to be My wife forever. u

I will take you to be My wife in righteousness,

justice, love, and compassion. v

20 I will take you to be My wife in faithfulness,

and you will know * Yahweh. w

21 On that day I will respond x—

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, y

the new wine, and the oil,

and they will respond to Jezreel.

23 I will sow her z in the land for Myself, a

and I will have compassion b

on No Compassion;

I will say c to Not My People: d

You are My people, e

and he will say, “You are My God.”