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Rebuke your mother, rebuke her; for she isn't my wife, and I'm not her husband. She must remove her whoring from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts.
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Otherwise, I will strip her naked and place her as she was the day she was born, make her like a desert, place her like a dry land and kill her with thirst.
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I will have no pity on her children, for they are children of whoring
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their mother prostituted herself, she who conceived them behaved shamelessly; she said, 'I will pursue my lovers, who give me my food and water, wool, flax, olive oil and wine.'
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Therefore, I will block her way with thorns and put up a hedge so she can't find her paths.
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She will pursue her lovers but not catch them. She will seek them but won't find them. Then she will say, 'I will go and return to my first husband; because things were better for me then than they are now.'
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For she doesn't know it was I who gave her the grain, the wine and the oil; I who increased her silver and gold, which they used for Ba'al.
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So I will take back my grain at harvest-time and my wine in its season; I will snatch away my wool and flax, given to cover her naked body.
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Now I will uncover her shame, while her lovers watch; and no one will save her from me.
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I will end her happiness, her festivals, Rosh-Hodesh, and shabbats, and all her designated times.
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I will ravage her vines and fig trees, of which she says, 'These are my wages that my lovers have given me.' But I will turn them into a forest, and wild animals will eat them.
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I will punish her for offering incense on the feast days of the ba'alim, when she decked herself with her earrings and jewels, pursuing her lovers and forgetting me," says ADONAI.
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"But now I am going to woo her - I will bring her out to the desert and I will speak to her heart.
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I will give her her vineyards from there and the Akhor Valley as a gateway to hope. She will respond there as she did when young, as she did when she came up from Egypt.
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"On that day," says ADONAI "you will call me Ishi [My Husband]; you will no longer call me Ba'ali [My Master].
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For I will remove the names of the ba'alim from her mouth; they will never again be mentioned by name.
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When that day comes, I will make a covenant for them with the wild animals, the birds in the air and the creeping things of the earth. I will break bow and sword, sweep battle from the land, and make them lie down securely.
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I will betroth you to me forever; yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in grace and in compassion;
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I will betroth you to me in faithfulness, and you will know ADONAI.
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When that day comes, I will answer," says ADONAI "I will answer the sky, and it will answer the earth;
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the earth will answer the corn, wine and oil, and they will answer Yizre'el [God will sow].
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I will sow her for me in the land. I will have pity on Lo-Ruchamah [Unpitied]; I will say to Lo-'Ammi [Not-My-People], 'You are my people'; and they will say, 'You are my God.'"