Say to your brothers, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.

And in that day, says the Lord, you will say to me, Ishi; and you will never again give me the name of Baali;

And I will put her as seed in the earth, and I will have mercy on her to whom no mercy was given; and I will say to those who were not my people, You are my people, and they will say, My God.

And so to Ephraim I am like a wasting insect, and a destruction to the children of Judah.

And they do not say to themselves that I keep in mind all their sin; now their evil acts come round them on every side; they are before my face.

And the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, will come to destruction; thorns and waste plants will come up on their altars; they will say to the mountains, Be a cover over us; and to the hills, Come down on us.

Take with you words, and come back to the Lord; say to him, Let there be forgiveness for all wrongdoing, so that we may take what is good, and give in payment the fruit of our lips.

Assyria will not be our salvation; we will not go on horses; we will not again say to the work of our hands, You are our gods; for in you there is mercy for the child who has no father.