1 Say to your brothers, "Ammi," and to your sisters, "Ruhamah."
2 Bring a case against your mother, bring a case, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; let her remove her harlotries from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts,
3 or I will strip her naked and expose her as on the day she was born; I will make her like the wilderness, turn her into a dry land, and let her die of thirst.
4 Her children I will not pity, for they are children of harlotry.
5 Their mother has played the harlot; the one who conceived them has behaved shamefully. For she said, "Let me go after my lovers, the ones who supply my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink."
6 Therefore, see, I am fencing in your way with thorns, and I will wall up her wall, so that she will not find her paths.
7 She will run after her lovers and not overtake them; she will search for them and not find them. Then she will say, "Let me go and return to my husband, the first one, for I was better off then than I am now."
8 Yet she did not realize that it was I who gave her the grain, the new wine and the oil, and who heaped up silver for her, and gold, which they made into Baal.
9 So I will turn and take back my grain at its proper time and my new wine at its set season; I will strip away my wool and my flax, given to cover her nakedness.
10 And now I will expose her shame before her lovers' eyes, and no one will deliver her out of my hand.
11 I will put a stop to all her joy, her festivals, her new moons, her Sabbaths and every one of her appointed feasts.
12 I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, which she called "my wages, given to me by my lovers." I will make them a thicket, and the beasts of the field will eat them up.
13 I will call her to account for the days of the Baals, when she burned incense to them and adorned herself with her rings and her jewelry and went after her lovers, and me she forgot, declares the LORD.
14 Therefore, see, I am going to win her over; I will lead her into the wilderness and speak to her heart.
15 From there I will give her her vineyards, and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope; and there she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as on the day she came up out of the land of Egypt.
16 "And on that day," declares the LORD, "you will call me 'My husband,' and you will not call me 'My Baal' anymore.
17 I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and their names will not be mentioned again.
18 And on that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens and the creeping things of the ground; bow and sword and battle I will break off from the land, and I will make them lie down in security.
19 I will betroth you to me forever; I will betroth you to me with righteousness and with justice, with steadfast love and with compassion.
20 I will betroth you to me with faithfulness, and you will know the LORD.
21 "On that day I will answer," declares the LORD, "I will answer the heavens, and they will answer the earth;
22 the earth will answer the grain, the new wine and the oil, and they will answer Jezreel.
23 I will sow her for myself in the land; I will show compassion to Lo-ruhamah, and I will say to Lo-ammi, 'You are my people,' and he will say, 'My God.'"