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\c 2
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\q
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\v 1 Say to your brothers, 'My people!'
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\q and to your sisters, 'You have been shown compassion.'"
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\q
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\v 2 Bring a lawsuit against your mother, bring a lawsuit,
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\q2 for she is not my wife,
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\q2 and neither am I her husband.
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\q Let her put away her prostitution from before herself,
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\q and her acts of adultery from between her breasts.
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\q
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\v 3 If not, I will strip her naked
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\q and show her nakedness as on the day that she was born.
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\q I will make her like the wilderness,
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\q like a parched land,
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\q and I will make her die from thirst.
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\q
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\v 4 I will not have any mercy on her children,
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\q for they are children of prostitution.
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\q
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\v 5 For their mother has been a prostitute,
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\q and she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
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\q She said, "I will go after my lovers,
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\q for they give me my bread and water,
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\q my wool and flax,
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\q my oil and drink."
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\q
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\v 6 Therefore I will build up a hedge to block her way with thorns.
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\q I will build up a wall against her
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\q so she cannot find her way.
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\q
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\v 7 She will pursue her lovers,
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\q but she will not overtake them.
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\q She will seek them,
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\q but she will not find them.
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\q Then she will say,
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\q "I will return to my first husband,
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\q for it was better for me then than it is now."
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\q
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\v 8 For she had not known that it was I who gave her
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\q the grain, the new wine and the oil,
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\q and who lavished on her silver and gold,
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\q which they then used for Baal.
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\q
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\v 9 So I will take back her grain at harvest time,
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\q and my new wine in its season.
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\q I will take back my wool and flax
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\q that were used to cover her nakedness.
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\q
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\v 10 Then I will strip her naked in the sight of her lovers,
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\q and no one will rescue her out of my hand.
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\q
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\v 11 I will also cause all her celebrations to cease—
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\q her feasts, her new moon celebrations, her Sabbaths, and all her appointed festivals.
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\q
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\v 12 "I will destroy her vines and her fig trees,
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\q of which she has said,
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\q 'These are the wages that my lovers gave me.'
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\q I will make them a forest,
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\q and the animals of the field will eat them.
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\q
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\v 13 I will punish her for the feast days of the Baals,
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\q when she burned incense to them,
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\q when she adorned herself with her rings and jewelry,
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\q and she went after her lovers and forgot me—
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\q this is Yahweh's declaration."
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\q
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\v 14 So I am going to win her back. I will bring her into the wilderness
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\q and speak tenderly to her.
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\q
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\v 15 I will give her back her vineyards,
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\q and the Valley of Achor as a door of hope.
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\q She will answer me there as she did in the days of her youth,
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\q as in the days that she came out of the land of Egypt.
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\v 16 "It will be in that day—this is Yahweh's declaration—
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\q that you will call me, 'My husband,'
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\q and you will no longer call me, 'My Baal.'
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\q
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\v 17 For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth;
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\q their names will not be remembered anymore."
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\q
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\v 18 "On that day I will make a covenant for them
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\q with the beasts in the fields,
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\q with the birds in the sky,
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\q and with the crawling things on the ground.
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\q I will drive away the bow, the sword, and the battle from the land,
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\q and I will make you lie down in safety.
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\q
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\v 19 I will promise to be your husband forever.
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\q I will promise to be your husband in righteousness, justice, covenant faithfulness, and mercy.
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\q
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\v 20 I will pledge myself to you in faithfulness,
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\q and you will know Yahweh.
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\q
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\v 21 On that day,
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\q I will answer—this is Yahweh's declaration—
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\q I will answer the heavens,
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\q and they will answer the earth.
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\q
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\v 22 The earth will answer the grain, the new wine and the oil,
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\q and they will answer Jezreel.
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\q
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\v 23 I will plant her for myself in the land,
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\q and I will have mercy on Lo Ruhamah.
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\q I will say to Lo Ammi,
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\q 'You are Ammi Attah,'
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\q and they will say to me, 'You are my God.'"
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