Yahweh said to him, "Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.

She conceived again, and bore a daughter. Then he said to him, "Call her name Lo-Ruhamah; for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them.

He said, "Call his name Lo-Ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.

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

It will be in that day," says Yahweh, "that you will call me 'my husband,' and no longer call me 'my master.'

"Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.

Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they bring forth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb."

My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won't exalt them.