2:1 `Say
ye
to
your
brethren--Ammi,
And
to
your
sisters--Ruhamah.
2:2 Plead
ye
with
your
mother--plead,
(For
she
[is]
not
My
wife,
and
I
[am]
not
her
husband,)
And
she
turneth
her
whoredoms
from
before
her,
And
her
adulteries
from
between
her
breasts,
2:3 Lest
I
strip
her
naked.
And
have
set
her
up
as
[in]
the
day
of
her
birth,
And
have
made
her
as
a
wilderness,
And
have
set
her
as
a
dry
land,
And
have
put
her
to
death
with
thirst.
2:4 And
her
sons
I
do
not
pity,
For
sons
of
whoredoms
[are]
they,
2:5 For
gone
a-whoring
hath
their
mother,
Acted
shamefully
hath
their
conceiver,
For
she
hath
said,
I
go
after
my
lovers,
Those
giving
my
bread
and
my
water,
My
wool
and
my
flax,
my
oil
and
my
drink.
2:6 Therefore,
lo,
I
am
hedging
up
thy
way
with
thorns,
And
I
have
made
for
her
a
wall,
And
her
paths
she
doth
not
find.
2:7 And
she
hath
pursued
her
lovers,
And
she
doth
not
overtake
them,
And
hath
sought
them,
and
doth
not
find,
And
she
hath
said:
I
go,
and
I
turn
back
unto
My
first
husband,
For--better
to
me
then
than
now.
2:8 And
she
knew
not
that
I
had
given
to
her,
The
corn,
and
the
new
wine,
and
the
oil.
Yea,
silver
I
did
multiply
to
her,
And
the
gold
they
prepared
for
Baal.
2:9 Therefore
do
I
turn
back,
And
I
have
taken
My
corn
in
its
season,
And
My
new
wine
in
its
appointed
time,
And
I
have
taken
away
My
wool
and
My
flax,
covering
her
nakedness.
2:10 And
now
do
I
reveal
her
dishonour
before
the
eyes
of
her
lovers,
And
none
doth
deliver
her
out
of
My
hand.
2:11 And
I
have
caused
to
cease
all
her
joy,
Her
festival,
her
new
moon,
and
her
sabbath,
Even
all
her
appointed
times,
2:12 And
made
desolate
her
vine
and
her
fig-tree,
Of
which
she
said,
A
gift
they
[are]
to
me,
That
my
lovers
have
given
to
me,
And
I
have
made
them
for
a
forest,
And
consumed
them
hath
a
beast
of
the
field.
2:13 And
I
have
charged
on
her
the
days
of
the
Baalim,
To
whom
she
maketh
perfume,
And
putteth
on
her
ring
and
her
ornament,
And
goeth
after
her
lovers,
And
Me
forgat--an
affirmation
of
Jehovah.
2:14 Therefore,
lo,
I
am
enticing
her,
And
have
caused
her
to
go
to
the
wilderness,
And
I
have
spoken
unto
her
heart,
2:15 And
given
to
her
her
vineyards
from
thence,
And
the
valley
of
Achor
for
an
opening
of
hope,
And
she
hath
responded
there
as
in
the
days
of
her
youth,
And
as
in
the
day
of
her
coming
up
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt.
2:16 And
it
hath
come
to
pass,
in
that
day,
An
affirmation
of
Jehovah,
Thou
dost
call
Me--My
husband,
And
dost
not
call
Me
any
more--My
lord.
2:17 And
I
have
turned
aside
the
names
of
the
lords
from
her
mouth,
And
they
are
not
remembered
any
more
by
their
name.
2:18 And
I
have
made
to
them
a
covenant
in
that
day,
with
the
beast
of
the
field,
And
with
the
fowl
of
the
heavens,
And
the
creeping
thing
of
the
ground,
And
bow,
and
sword,
and
war
I
break
from
off
the
land,
And
have
caused
them
to
lie
down
confidently.
2:19 And
I
have
betrothed
thee
to
Me
to
the
age,
And
betrothed
thee
to
Me
in
righteousness,
And
in
judgment,
and
kindness,
and
mercies,
2:20 And
betrothed
thee
to
Me
in
faithfulness,
And
thou
hast
known
Jehovah.
2:21 And
it
hath
come
to
pass
in
that
day,
I
answer--an
affirmation
of
Jehovah,
I
answer
the
heavens,
and
they
answer
the
earth.
2:22 And
the
earth
doth
answer
the
corn,
And
the
new
wine,
and
the
oil,
And
they
answer
Jezreel.
2:23 And
I
have
sowed
her
to
Me
in
the
land,
And
I
have
pitied
Lo-Ruhamah,
And
I
have
said
to
Lo-Ammi,
My
people
thou
[art]
,
and
it
saith,
My
God!'
