And the Lord said, “Call his name Not My People, for you are not my people, and I am not your God.”

“Plead with your mother, plead— for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband— that she put away her whoring from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts;

Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of punishment; among the tribes of Israel I make known what is sure.

But I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like dry rot to the house of Judah.

Israel is swallowed up; already they are among the nations as a useless vessel.

Though they hire allies among the nations, I will soon gather them up. And the king and princes shall soon writhe because of the tribute.

therefore the tumult of war shall arise among your people, and all your fortresses shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle; mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.

I will not execute my burning anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not a man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath.

Ephraim has said, “Ah, but I am rich; I have found wealth for myself; in all my labors they cannot find in me iniquity or sin.”

I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; I will again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the appointed feast.

But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior.

So I am to them like a lion; like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.

Though he may flourish among his brothers, the east wind, the wind of the Lord, shall come, rising from the wilderness, and his fountain shall dry up; his spring shall be parched; it shall strip his treasury of every precious thing.

O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I am like an evergreen cypress; from me comes your fruit.