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3.2 KiB
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94 lines
3.2 KiB
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# Chapter 2
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1 Call your brothers: My People
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and your sisters: Compassion.
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2 Rebuke your mother; rebuke her.
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For she is not my wife and I am not her husband.
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Let her remove the promiscuous look from her face
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and her adultery from between her breasts.
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3 Otherwise, I will strip her naked
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and expose her as she was on the day of her birth.
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I will make her like a desert
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and like a parched land,
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and I will let her die of thirst.
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4 I will have no compassion on her children
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because they are the children of promiscuity.
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5 Yes, their mother is promiscuous;
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she conceived them and acted shamefully.
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For she thought, “I will follow my lovers,
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the men who give me my food and water,
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my wool and flax, my oil and drink.”
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6 Therefore, this is what I will do:
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I will block her way with thorns;
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I will enclose her with a wall,
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so that she cannot find her paths.
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7 She will pursue her lovers but not catch them;
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she will look for them but not find them.
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Then she will think,
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“I will go back to my former husband,
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for then it was better for me than now.”
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8 She does not recognize
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that it is I who gave her the grain,
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the new wine, and the fresh oil.
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I lavished silver and gold on her,
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which they used for Baal.
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9 Therefore, I will take back my grain in its time
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and my new wine in its season;
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I will take away my wool and linen,
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which were to cover her nakedness.
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10 Now I will expose her shame
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in the sight of her lovers,
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and no one will rescue her from my power.
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11 I will put an end to all her celebrations:
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her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—
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all her festivals.
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12 I will devastate her vines and fig trees.
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She thinks that these are her wages
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that her lovers have given her.
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I will turn them into a thicket,
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and the wild animals will eat them.
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13 And I will punish her for the days of the Baals,
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to which she burned incense.
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She put on her rings and her jewelry
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and followed her lovers,
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but she forgot me.
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This is the Lord’s declaration.
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14 Therefore, I am going to persuade her,
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lead her to the wilderness,
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and speak tenderly to her.
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15 There I will give her vineyards back to her
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and make the Valley of Achor
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into a gateway of hope.
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There she will respond as she did
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in the days of her youth,
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as in the day she came out of the land of Egypt.
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16 In that day—
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this is the Lord’s declaration—
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you will call me “my husband”
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and no longer call me “my Baal.”
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17 For I will remove the names of the Baals
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from her mouth;
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they will no longer be remembered by their names.
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18 On that day I will make a covenant for them
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with the wild animals, the birds of the sky,
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and the creatures that crawl on the ground.
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I will shatter bow, sword,
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and weapons of war in the land
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and will enable the people to rest securely.
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19 I will take you to be my wife forever.
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I will take you to be my wife in righteousness,
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justice, love, and compassion.
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20 I will take you to be my wife in faithfulness,
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and you will know the Lord.
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21 On that day I will respond—
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this is the Lord’s declaration.
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I will respond to the sky,
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and it will respond to the earth.
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22 The earth will respond to the grain,
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the new wine, and the fresh oil,
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and they will respond to Jezreel.
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23 I will sow her in the land for myself,
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and I will have compassion
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on Lo-ruhamah;
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I will say to Lo-ammi:
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You are my people,
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and he will say, “You are my God.” |