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Say to your brothers, "Ammi," and to your sisters, "Ruhamah."
h'm'xUr ~,kyetw{x]a;l.w yiM;[ ~,kyex]a;l .Wr.mia
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"Contend with your mother, contend, For she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; And let her putaway her harlotry from her face And her adultery from between her breasts,
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Or I will strip her naked And expose her as on the day when she was born. I will also make her like a wilderness, Make her like desertland And slay her with thirst.
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"For their mother has played the harlot; She who conceived them has actedshamefully. For she said, 'I will goafter my lovers, Who give me my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.'
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"She will pursue her lovers, but she will not overtake them; And she will seek them, but will not find them. Then she will say, 'I will goback to my firsthusband, For it was better for me thenthannow!'
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"Therefore, I will takeback My grain at harvest time And My newwine in its season. I will also takeaway My wool and My flax Given to cover her nakedness.
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"I will destroy her vines and figtrees, Of which she said, 'These are my wagesWhich my lovers have given me.' And I will make them a forest, And the beasts of the field will devour them.
h'n.t,a h'r.m'a r,v]a H't'nea.t.W H'n.p;G yit{Miv]h;w ? ~yiT.m;f.w y'b]h;a.m yil -.Wn.t'n r,v]a yil h'Meh ? h,d'F;h t;Y;x ~;t'l'k]a;w r;[;y.l
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"I will punish her for the days of the BaalsWhen she used to offersacrifices to them And adorn herself with her earrings and jewelry, And follow* her lovers, so that she forgot Me," declares the LORD.
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"Then I will give her her vineyards from there, And the valley of Achor as a door of hope. And she will singthere as in the days of her youth, As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.
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"In that day I will also make a covenant for them With the beasts of the field, The birds of the sky And the creepingthings of the ground. And I will abolish the bow, the sword and war from the land, And will make them liedown in safety.
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"I will sow her for Myself in the land. I will also havecompassion on her who had not obtainedcompassion, And I will say to those who were not My people, 'You are My people!' And they will say, 'You are my God!' "