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In that day I will break Israel’s bow in the Valley of Jezreel.”
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The people of Judah and the people of Israel will come together; they will appoint one leader and will come up out of the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.
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Otherwise I will strip her naked and make her as bare as on the day she was born; I will make her like a desert, turn her into a parched land, and slay her with thirst.
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She will chase after her lovers but not catch them; she will look for them but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go back to my husband as at first, for then I was better off than now.’
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I will stop all her celebrations: her yearly festivals, her New Moons, her Sabbath days—all her appointed festivals.
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I will punish her for the days she burned incense to the Baals; she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers, but me she forgot,” declares the Lord.
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There I will give her back her vineyards, and will make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. There she will respond as in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.
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“In that day,” declares the Lord, “you will call me ‘my husband’; you will no longer call me ‘my master.’
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In that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky and the creatures that move along the ground. Bow and sword and battle I will abolish from the land, so that all may lie down in safety.
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“In that day I will respond,” declares the Lord— “I will respond to the skies, and they will respond to the earth;
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Then I told her, “You are to live with me many days; you must not be a prostitute or be intimate with any man, and I will behave the same way toward you.”
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For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones, without ephod or household gods.
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Afterward the Israelites will return and seek the Lord their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the Lord and to his blessings in the last days.
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You stumble day and night, and the prophets stumble with you. So I will destroy your mother—
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Ephraim will be laid waste on the day of reckoning. Among the tribes of Israel I proclaim what is certain.
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After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence.
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On the day of the festival of our king the princes become inflamed with wine, and he joins hands with the mockers.
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What will you do on the day of your appointed festivals, on the feast days of the Lord?
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The days of punishment are coming, the days of reckoning are at hand. Let Israel know this. Because your sins are so many and your hostility so great, the prophet is considered a fool, the inspired person a maniac.
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They have sunk deep into corruption, as in the days of Gibeah. God will remember their wickedness and punish them for their sins.
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“Since the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, Israel, and there you have remained. Will not war again overtake the evildoers in Gibeah?
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the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be devastated— as Shalman devastated Beth Arbel on the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to the ground with their children.
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So will it happen to you, Bethel, because your wickedness is great. When that day dawns, the king of Israel will be completely destroyed.
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Ephraim feeds on the wind; he pursues the east wind all day and multiplies lies and violence. He makes a treaty with Assyria and sends olive oil to Egypt.
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“I have been the Lord your God ever since you came out of Egypt; I will make you live in tents again, as in the days of your appointed festivals.
