1Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi;
2Plead with your mother, plead:
3Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born,
4And I will not have mercy upon her children;
5For their mother hath played the harlot:
6Therefore behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns,
7And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them;
8For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil,
9Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof,
10And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers,
11I will also cause all her mirth to cease,
12And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees,
13And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burnt incense to them,
14Therefore behold, I will allure her,
15And I will give her her vineyards from thence,
16And it shall be at that day, saith the Lord, that thou shalt call me Ishi;
17For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth,
18And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field,
19And I will betroth thee unto me for ever;
20I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness:
21And it shall come to pass in that day,
22And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil;
23And I will sow her unto me in the earth;