For the day is near, even the day of Jehovah is near, a cloudy day. It shall be the time of the nations.

And your food which you shall eat shall be by weight twenty shekels a day; from time to time you shall eat it.

You shall also drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin. From time to time you shall drink.

And I passed by you and looked on you, and, behold, your time was the time of love. And I spread my skirt over you and covered your nakedness. And I swore to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord Jehovah. And you became Mine.

Because you have had a never-ending hatred, and have shed the blood of the sons of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that iniquity had an end,