And He said, Call his name Not-my-people. For you are not My people, and I will not be for you.

Yet the number of the sons of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered. And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, there it shall be said to them, You are the sons of the living God.

Contend! Contend with your mother, for she is not my wife, nor am I her husband. Let her therefore put away her fornications out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts,

For their mother has prostituted herself. She who conceived them has done shamefully. For she said, I will go after my lovers who give my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

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

So I will return and take away My grain in its time, and my wine in its season, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.

And now I will uncover her shamefulness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.

And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, of which she has said, They 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.

And I will visit on her the days of the Baals, in which she burned incense to them, and she adorned herself with her nose-rings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers and forgot Me, says Jehovah.

And it shall be at that day, says Jehovah, you shall call Me, My Husband, and shall no more call Me, My Baal.

And I will betroth you to Me forever. Yea, I will betroth you to Me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving-kindness, and in mercies.

I will even betroth you to Me in faithfulness. And you shall know Jehovah.

And I will sow her to Me in the earth. And I will have mercy on No-mercy. And I will say to Not-my-people, You are My people. And they shall say, My God.

And Jehovah said to me, Go again. Love a woman beloved by a friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of Jehovah toward the sons of Israel, who turn to other gods, and love raisin-cakes of grapes.

So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a homer of barley and a half homer of barley.

And I said to her, You shall abide for me many days. You shall not be a harlot, nor be for a man. And I also will be for you.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being priest to Me. Since you have forgotten the Law of your God, I will also forget your sons, even I.

As they were increased, so they sinned against Me. I will change their glory into shame.

They eat up the sin of My people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

My people seek advice from their wooden idols, and their rod declares to them. For the spirit of harlotry has caused them to go astray, and they have gone lusting away from under their God.

I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me. For now, O Ephraim, you have fornicated; Israel is defiled.

The rulers of Judah were like movers of a border; I will pour out My wrath on them like water.

I will go; I will return to My place until they confess their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will seek Me diligently.

So I have cut them down by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth. And your judgments were as the light that goes forth.

But, like Adam, they have broken the covenant. They have acted like traitors against Me there.

Also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed to you, when I return the captivity of My people.

And they do not say within their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their own doings have hemmed them in; they are before My face.

They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen; there is none among them who calls to Me.

When they go, I will spread My net on them; I will bring them down like the birds of the heavens; I will chastise them, as a report to their congregation.

Woe to them! For they have fled from Me. Ruin to them! Because they have sinned against Me. Though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against Me.

And they have not cried to Me with their heart, when they howled on their beds; they gather themselves for grain and wine, and they rebel against Me.

Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet they think evil against Me.

Put a trumpet to your mouth. He comes like an eagle against the house of Jehovah, because they have broken My covenant and have sinned against My Law.

Israel shall cry to Me, My God, we know You.

They have set up kings, but not by Me; they have made rulers, and I knew it not. They have made themselves idols with their silver and their gold, so that they may be cut off.

Your calf, O Samaria, has cast you off. My anger is kindled against them. Until when will they not attain purity?

I have written to him the great things of My Law, but they were counted as a strange thing.

They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of My offerings, and eat it; but Jehovah does not receive them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins. They shall return to Egypt.

The watchman of Ephraim was with my God. The prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.

All their wickedness is in Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them out of My house for the wickedness of their doings. I will love them no more; all their rulers are revolters.

My God shall cast them away because they did not listen to Him. And they shall be wanderers among the nations.

When Israel was a child, then I loved him and called My son out of Egypt.

And My people are bent on backsliding from Me. Though they called them to the Most High, none at all would exalt Him.

How shall I give you up, Ephraim? How shall I deliver you, Israel? How shall I make you like Admah? How shall I set you as Zeboim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassions are kindled together.

I will not carry out the heat of My anger; I will not return to destroy Ephraim. For I am God and not man, the Holy One in your midst; and I will not enter into the city.

Ephraim circles around Me with lying, and the house of Israel with deceit. But Judah still rules with God, and is faithful with the saints.

And Ephraim said, Yet I have become rich, I have found much wealth for myself. In all my labors they shall find in me no iniquity that is sin.

Ephraim provoked Me to anger most bitterly; therefore he shall leave his blood on him, and his Lord shall turn his reproach to him.

Yet I am Jehovah your God from the land of Egypt, and you shall know no God but Me. For there is no Savior besides Me.

According to their pasture, so were they filled. They were filled and their heart was lifted up. Therefore they have forgotten Me.

O Israel, you have destroyed yourself; but in Me is your help.

Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities; and your judges of whom you said, Give me a king and rulers?

I gave you a king in My anger, and took him away in My wrath.

I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. O Death, where are your plagues; O Grave, where is your ruin! Repentance shall be hidden from My eyes.

Take with you words, and turn to Jehovah. Say to Him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously, that we may repay with the calves of our lips.

I will heal their backslidings; I will love them freely; for My anger has turned away from him.

Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him and watched him; I am like a green fir tree. Your fruit is found from Me.