2 Call^[a] your brothers: My People
and your sisters: Compassion.

² Rebuke your mother; rebuke her.^(A)
For she is not my wife and I am not her husband.^(B)
Let her remove the promiscuous look from her face^(C)
and her adultery from between her breasts.
³ Otherwise, I will strip her naked^(D)
and expose her as she was on the day of her birth.
I will make her like a desert^(E)
and like a parched land,
and I will let her die of thirst.^(F)
4 I will have no compassion on her children^(G)
because they are the children of promiscuity.
⁵ Yes, their mother is promiscuous;
she conceived them and acted shamefully.^(H)
For she thought, ‘I will follow my lovers,^(I)
the men who give me my food and water,
my wool and flax, my oil and drink.’^(J)
6 Therefore, this is what I will do:
I will block her^[b] way^(K) with thorns;^(L)
I will enclose her with a wall,
so that she cannot find her paths.^(M)
7 She will pursue her lovers but not catch them;^(N)
she will look for them but not find them.
Then she will think,
‘I will go back to my former husband,^(O)
for then it was better for me than now.’^(P)
8 She does not recognise^(Q)
that it is I who gave her the grain,^(R)
the new wine, and the fresh oil.
I lavished silver and gold on her,
which they used for Baal.
⁹ Therefore, I will take back my grain in its time^(S)
and my new wine in its season;
I will take away my wool and linen,
which were to cover her nakedness.
¹⁰ Now I will expose her shame^(T)
in the sight of her lovers,
and no one will rescue her from my power.
¹¹ I will put an end to all her celebrations:^(U)
her feasts,^(V) New Moons,^(W) and Sabbaths –
all her festivals.
¹² I will devastate her vines and fig trees.^(X)
She thinks that these are her wages
that her lovers have given her.
I will turn them into a thicket,^(Y)
and the wild animals will eat them.^(Z)
13 And I will punish her for the days of the Baals,^(AA)
to which she burned incense.^(AB)
She put on her rings and her jewellery^(AC)
and followed her lovers,
but she forgot me.^(AD)
This is the Lord’s declaration.

¹⁴ Therefore, I am going to persuade her,
lead her to the wilderness,^(AE)
and speak tenderly to her.^[c]
15 There I will give her vineyards back to her^(AF)
and make the Valley of Achor^[d](AG)
into a gateway of hope.
There she will respond as she did
in the days of her youth,^(AH)
as in the day she came out of the land of Egypt.
¹⁶ In that day –
this is the Lord’s declaration –
you will call me ‘my husband’^(AI)
and no longer call me ‘my Baal’.^[e]
17 For I will remove the names of the Baals
from her mouth;
they will no longer be remembered by their names.
¹⁸ On that day I will make a covenant for them
with the wild animals, the birds of the sky,
and the creatures that crawl on the ground.^(AJ)
I will shatter bow, sword,
and weapons of war in the land^[f](AK)
and will enable the people to rest securely.^(AL)
19 I will take you to be my wife for ever.^(AM)
I will take you to be my wife in righteousness,
justice, love, and compassion.^(AN)
20 I will take you to be my wife in faithfulness,
and you will know the Lord.^(AO)
21 On that day I will respond^(AP) –
this is the Lord’s declaration.
I will respond to the sky,
and it will respond to the earth.
²² The earth will respond to the grain,^(AQ)
the new wine, and the fresh oil,
and they will respond to Jezreel.
²³ I will sow her^[g] in the land for myself,^(AR)
and I will have compassion^(AS)
on Lo-ruhamah;
I will say to Lo-ammi:^(AT)
You are my people,^(AU)
and he will say, ‘You are my God.’