1 ¶ Call your brethren, Ammi which means My-people; and your sisters, Ruhamah which means Loved.

2 Rebuke your mother, rebuke her: for she is not my wife, nor am I her husband: she should get rid of the sexual lust on her face, and the adultery between her breasts;

3 Or I will strip her naked, and make her as bare as the day she was born, and make her like a desert, like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

4 And I will not have mercy on her children; for they are the children of immorality.

5 For their mother has lived as a harlot: she who conceived them has done shameful things: for she said, I will go after my lovers, those who give me my food and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

6 ¶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her way with thorns, and make a wall, to keep her from finding her paths.

7 And she will run after her lovers, but she will not catch up with them; and she will seek them, but will not find them: then she will say, I will go back to my first husband; because then it was better with me than now.

8 For she did not realize that I gave her grain, and wine, and oil, and lavished upon her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

9 Therefore I will return, and take back my grain at the time for it, and my wine in its season, and will take away my wool and my flax that was given to cover her nakedness.

10 And I will uncover her nakedness for her lovers to see, and no one will deliver her out of my hand.

11 I will also cause all her happy times to end, her feast days, her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her festivals.

12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, of which she has said, These are the gifts that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a tangle-wood, and the beasts of the field will eat them.

13 And I punish her for the days devoted to Baals, in which she burned incense to them, and she decorated herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgot me, says the LORD.

14 ¶ Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably to her.

15 There I will give her her vineyards, and make the valley of Trouble a door of hope: and there she will sing, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

16 And then, says the LORD, she will call me Husband; and will no longer call me My-Baal.

17 For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and their names will never be mentioned again.

18 And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will abolish the bow and the sword and conflict from the earth, and will make it possible for them to lie down safely.

19 And I will purchase you as my wife forever; yes, I will pay your bride-price in righteousness, and in justice, and in loving kindness, and in mercy.

20 I will betroth you to me in faithfulness: and you will know the LORD.

21 And it will come to pass in that day, I will hear, says the LORD, I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth;

22 And the earth will respond to the grain, and the wine, and the oil; and these will respond to Jezreel.

23 And I will plant her for myself in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will say to those who were not my people, You are my people; and they will say, You are my God.