1Say you^2f unto your brethren, ‘Ammi [my people]; and to your sisters, ‘Ruchamah [pitied].

2Plead with your mother, plead: for she [is] not my wife, neither [am] I her husband: let her therefore put away her cult prostitution out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

3Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

4And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they [be] the children of cult prostitution.

5For their mother has played the prostitute: she that conceived them has done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give [me] my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up yourⁱ way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

7And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find [them]: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then [was it] better with me than now.

8For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, [which] they prepared for Ba’al [lord (a false god)].

9Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax [given] to cover her nakedness.

10And now will I reveal her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.

11I will also cause all her gladness to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her Shabbat, and all her solemn feasts.

12And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she has said, These [are] my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

13And I will visit upon her the days of Ba’alim [lords (false gods)], wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgot me, says the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

14Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.

15And I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Akhor [Trouble] for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place].

16And it shall be at that day, says the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), [that] youⁱ shall call me Ishi [My Husband]; and shall call me no more Ba’ali [lord (a false god)].

17For I will take away the names of Ba’alim [lords (false gods)] out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.

18And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and [with] the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.

19And I will betroth youⁱ unto me forever; yes, I will betroth youⁱ unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.

20I will even betroth youⁱ unto me in faithfulness: and youⁱ shall know the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

21And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, says the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;

22And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Yizre’el [God Sows].

23And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to [them which were] not my people, youⁱ [are] my people; and they shall say, [youⁱ are] my God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].