For their mother committed fornication: she conceiving them acted shamefully: for she said, I will go after those loving me giving me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, mine oil and my drinks.

And now will I uncover her wickedness before the eyes of those loving her, and a man shall not deliver her from my hand.

And I caused all her rejoicing to cease, her festival and her new moon, and her Sabbath and all her appointment

And saying to her, Many days thou shalt well with me; and thou shalt not commit fornication, and thou shalt not be for a man: and also I am for thee.

But a man shall not contend, and he shall not admonish a man: and my people as contending with the priest.

Against Jehovah they acted faithlessly: for they begat strange sons: now shall the new moon consume them with their portions.

And they as man passed by the covenant: there they acted faithlessly against me.

As troops waiting for a man, the company of priests will break in pieces the way with the shoulder: for they did wickedness.

Thy calf rejected, O Shomeron; mine anger was kindled against them: how long shall they not be able to be clean?

The days of oversight came, the days of recompense came; Israel knew: the prophet is foolish, the man of the spirit, raving, for the multitude of thine iniquity and great destruction.

But if they shall bring up their sons and I bereaved them from man: but also wo to them in my departing from them.

I will draw them with the cords of man, with the bands of love: and I will be to them as those lifting up the yoke upon their jaw-bones, and I will gently give them to eat

I will not do the burning of mine anger, I will not turn back to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not a man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not come into the city.

And now they will add to sin, and they will make to them a molten image of their silver, in their understanding images the work of artificers all of it: they saying to them, The men sacrificing shall kiss the calves.

I will give to thee a king in mine anger, and I will take away in my wrath.

From the hand of hades will I redeem them; from death will I ransom them: I will be thy words, O death, I will be thy cutting off, O hades: consolation will be hid from mine eyes.

I will heal their turning away, I loved them largely: for mine anger turned away from him.