1Call2:1 Lit Say to your brothers: My People
and your sisters: Compassion.
Israel’s Adultery Rebuked
For she is not my wife and I am not her husband.2:2 Is 50:1
and her adultery from between her breasts.
and expose her as she was on the day of her birth.
I will make her like a desert2:3 Is 32:13–14; Hs 13:15
and like a parched land,
and I will let her die of thirst.2:3 Jr 14:3; Am 8:11–13
because they are the children of promiscuity.
5Yes, their mother is promiscuous;
For she thought, “I will follow my lovers,2:5 Jr 2:25
the men who give me my food and water,
my wool and flax, my oil and drink.”2:5 Jr 44:17–18
6Therefore, this is what I will do:
I will enclose her with a wall,
so that she cannot find her paths.2:6 Jr 18:15
she will look for them but not find them.
Then she will think,
that it is I who gave her the grain,2:8 Ezk 16:19
the new wine, and the fresh oil.
I lavished silver and gold on her,
which they used for Baal.
and my new wine in its season;
I will take away my wool and linen,
which were to cover her nakedness.
in the sight of her lovers,
and no one will rescue her from my power.
her feasts,2:11 Hs 3:4; Am 5:21; 8:10 New Moons,2:11 Is 1:13–14 and Sabbaths —
all her festivals.
She thinks that these are her wages
that her lovers have given her.
and the wild animals will eat them.2:12 Is 32:13–15
to which she burned incense.2:13 Jr 7:9
and followed her lovers,
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Israel’s Adultery Forgiven
14Therefore, I am going to persuade her,
lead her to the wilderness,2:14 Ezk 20:33–38
and speak tenderly to her.2:14 Lit speak to her heart
15There I will give her vineyards back to her2:15 Ezk 28:25–26
and make the Valley of Achor2:15 = Trouble2:15 Jos 7:26
into a gateway of hope.
There she will respond as she did
in the days of her youth,2:15 Jr 2:1–3
as in the day she came out of the land of Egypt.
16In that day —
this is the Lord’s declaration —
you will call me “my husband”2:16 Is 54:5
and no longer call me “my Baal.”2:16 Or my master
17For I will remove the names of the Baals
from her mouth;
they will no longer be remembered by their names.
18On that day I will make a covenant for them
with the wild animals, the birds of the sky,
I will shatter bow, sword,
and weapons of war in the land2:18 Or war on the earth2:18 Ezk 39:1–10
and will enable the people to rest securely.2:18 Ezk 34:25
I will take you to be my wife in righteousness,
20I will take you to be my wife in faithfulness,
21On that day I will respond2:21 Is 55:10; Zch 8:12; Mal 3:10–11 —
this is the Lord’s declaration.
I will respond to the sky,
and it will respond to the earth.
the new wine, and the fresh oil,
and they will respond to Jezreel.
and I will have compassion2:23 Hs 1:6
on Lo-ruhamah;
I will say to Lo-ammi:2:23 Hs 1:9
and he will say, “You are my God.”
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