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# Chapter 2
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1 Say to your brothers, “You are my people,” and to your sisters, “You have received mercy.”
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2 “Plead with your mother, plead—
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for she is not my wife,
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and I am not her husband—
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that she put away her whoring from her face,
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and her adultery from between her breasts;
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3 lest I strip her naked
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and make her as in the day she was born,
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and make her like a wilderness,
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and make her like a parched land,
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and kill her with thirst.
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4 Upon her children also I will have no mercy,
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because they are children of whoredom.
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5 For their mother has played the whore;
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she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
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For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
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who give me my bread and my water,
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my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’
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6 Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns,
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and I will build a wall against her,
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so that she cannot find her paths.
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7 She shall pursue her lovers
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but not overtake them,
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and she shall seek them
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but shall not find them.
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Then she shall say,
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‘I will go and return to my first husband,
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for it was better for me then than now.’
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8 And she did not know
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that it was I who gave her
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the grain, the wine, and the oil,
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and who lavished on her silver and gold,
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which they used for Baal.
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9 Therefore I will take back
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my grain in its time,
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and my wine in its season,
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and I will take away my wool and my flax,
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which were to cover her nakedness.
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10 Now I will uncover her lewdness
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in the sight of her lovers,
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and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.
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11 And I will put an end to all her mirth,
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her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths,
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and all her appointed feasts.
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12 And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,
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of which she said,
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‘These are my wages,
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which my lovers have given me.’
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I will make them a forest,
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and the beasts of the field shall devour them.
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13 And I will punish her for the feast days of the Baals
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when she burned offerings to them
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and adorned herself with her ring and jewelry,
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and went after her lovers
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and forgot me, declares the Lord.
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14 “Therefore, behold, I will allure her,
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and bring her into the wilderness,
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and speak tenderly to her.
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15 And there I will give her her vineyards
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and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope.
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And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth,
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as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.
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16 “And in that day, declares the Lord, you will call me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer will you call me ‘My Baal.’
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17 For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more.
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18 And I will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground. And I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety.
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19 And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.
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20 I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the Lord.
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21 “And in that day I will answer, declares the Lord,
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I will answer the heavens,
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and they shall answer the earth,
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22 and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil,
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and they shall answer Jezreel,
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23 and I will sow her for myself in the land.
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And I will have mercy on No Mercy,
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and I will say to Not My People, ‘You are my people’;
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and he shall say, ‘You are my God.’” |