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

And if she goes after her lovers she will not overtake them; if she makes search for them she will not see them; then will she say, I will go back to my first husband, for then it was better for me than now.

And I will give her punishment for the days of the Baals, to whom she has been burning perfumes, when she made herself fair with her nose-rings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, giving no thought to me, says the Lord.

For this cause I will make her come into the waste land and will say words of comfort to her.

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

For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and never again will she say their names.

And it will be, in that day, says the Lord, that I will give an answer to the heavens, and the heavens to the earth;

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 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.

Now, truly, they will say, We have no king, we have no fear of the Lord; and the king, what is he able to do for us?

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.

Shaking with fear like a bird, they will come out of Egypt, like a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will give them rest in their houses, says the Lord.

And now their sins are increased; they have made themselves a metal image, false gods from their silver, after their designs, all of them the work of the metal-workers; they say of them, Let them give offerings, let men give kisses to the oxen.

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.