^4 (G)Restore us again, O God of our salvation,
    and put away your indignation toward us!
^5 (H)Will you be angry with us forever?
    Will you prolong your anger to all generations?
⁶ Will you not ^(I)revive us again,
    that your people may ^(J)rejoice in you?
⁷ Show us your steadfast love, O Lord,
    and grant us your salvation.

^8 (K)Let me hear what God the Lord will speak,
    for he will ^(L)speak peace to his people, to his ^(M)saints;
    but let them not ^(N)turn back to ^(O)folly.
⁹ Surely his ^(P)salvation is near to those who fear him,
    that ^(Q)glory may dwell in our land.

^10 (R)Steadfast love and faithfulness meet;
    ^(S)righteousness and peace kiss each other.
¹¹ Faithfulness springs up from the ground,
    and righteousness looks down from the sky.
¹² Yes, ^(T)the Lord will give what is good,
    and our land ^(U)will yield its increase.
^13 (V)Righteousness will go before him
    and make his footsteps a way.

² “Plead with your mother, plead—
    for ^(E)she is not my wife,
    and I am not her husband—
that she put away ^(F)her whoring from her face,
    and her adultery from between her breasts;
³ lest ^(G)I strip her naked
    and make her as ^(H)in the day she was born,
and ^(I)make her like a wilderness,
    and make her like a parched land,
    and kill her with thirst.
^4 (J)Upon her children also I will have no mercy,
    ^(K)because they are children of whoredom.
⁵ For ^(L)their mother has played the whore;
    she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For ^(M)she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
    who ^(N)give me my bread and my water,
    my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’
⁶ Therefore ^(O)I will hedge up her^[d] way with thorns,
    and ^(P)I will build a wall against her,
    so that she cannot find her paths.
⁷ She shall pursue her lovers
    but not overtake them,
and she shall seek them
    but shall not find them.
^(Q)Then she shall say,
    ‘I will go and return to ^(R)my first husband,
    ^(S)for it was better for me then than now.’
⁸ And ^(T)she did not know
    that it was ^(U)I who gave her
    ^(V)the grain, the wine, and the oil,
and who lavished on ^(W)her silver and gold,
    ^(X)which they used for Baal.
⁹ Therefore ^(Y)I will take back
    my grain in its time,
    and my wine in its season,
and ^(Z)I will take away my wool and my flax,
    which were to cover her nakedness.
¹⁰ Now ^(AA)I will uncover her lewdness
    in the sight of her lovers,
    and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.
^11 (AB)And I will put an end to all her mirth,
    her feasts, her ^(AC)new moons, her ^(AD)Sabbaths,
    and all her ^(AE)appointed feasts.
¹² And ^(AF)I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,
    ^(AG)of which she said,
‘These are ^(AH)my wages,
    which my lovers have given me.’
I will make them a forest,
    ^(AI)and the beasts of the field shall devour them.
¹³ And ^(AJ)I will punish her for ^(AK)the feast days of the Baals
    when she burned offerings to them
and ^(AL)adorned herself with her ring and jewelry,
    and went after her lovers
    and forgot me, declares the Lord.