2Contend with your mother, contend, for she is not my wife and I am not her husband. Let her remove her fornication from before her face and her adultery from between her breasts.3Lest I strip her naked and set her as on the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness and set her like a dry land, and put her to death with thirst.4And I will not have compassion on her sons, for they are sons of fornication.5For their mother has fornicated; she who conceived them has acted shamefully, for she said, 'I will go after my lovers who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.'6Therefore, look, I will hedge up her way with thorns, and I will wall up her wall, and she will not find her paths.7And she will pursue her lovers but will not overtake them; she will seek them but will not find them. Then she will say, 'I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better for me then than now.'8And she did not know that I gave her the grain and the new wine and the oil, and I multiplied silver for her, yet they made gold for Baal.9Therefore I will take back my grain at its season and my new wine at its appointed time; I will take away my wool and my flax that were to cover her nakedness.10And now I will uncover her lewdness before her lovers' eyes, and no man will rescue her from my hand.11I will put an end to all her joy, her festivals, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her appointed feasts.12And I will make her vine and her fig tree desolate, of which she said, 'These are my wages that my lovers have given me.' And I will make them a forest, and the animals of the field will eat them.13And I will reckon upon her the days of the Baals when she offered to them, and she adorned herself with her ring and her jewelry and went after her lovers, but forgot me, declares the LORD.14Therefore I will allure her and lead her into the wilderness and speak tenderly to her heart.15And I will give her her vineyards from there, and the Valley of Achor as a door of hope. And she will answer there as in the days of her youth, and as on the day she came up from the land of Egypt.16And it will be on that day, declares the LORD, that you will call me 'My husband,' and you will no longer call me 'My Baal.'17And I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they will no longer be remembered by their name.18And I will cut a covenant for them on that day with the animals of the field and with the bird of the heavens and the creeping thing of the ground, and I will break the bow and the sword and battle from the land, and I will make them lie down in security.19And I will betroth you to me forever; I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice and in kindness and in compassion.20And I will betroth you to me in faithfulness, and you will know the LORD.21And it will be on that day, declares the LORD, that I will answer the heavens, and they will answer the earth.22And the earth will answer the grain and the new wine and the oil, and they will answer Jezreel.23And I will sow her for myself in the land; I will have compassion on Lo-ruhamah, and I will say to Lo-ammi, 'You are my people,' and he will say, 'You are my God.'