And the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint themselves one head, and shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel.

Yea, I will have no mercy upon her sons, for they are sons of whoredom,

For she did not know that I gave her the grain, and the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

For I will take away the names of the Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be mentioned by their name.

And it shall come to pass in that day, I will answer, says LORD. I will answer the heavens, and they shall answer the earth,

and the earth shall answer the grain, and the new wine, and the oil, and they shall answer Jezreel.

And I will sow her to me in the earth. And I will have mercy upon her who had not obtained mercy. And I will say to those who were not my people, Thou are my people, and they shall say, My God.

And LORD said to me, Go again, love a woman beloved of [her] friend, and an adulteress, even as LORD loves the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.

There is nothing but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery. They break out, and blood touches blood.

As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.

They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.

And they shall eat, and not have enough. They shall play the harlot, and shall not increase, because they have left off taking heed to LORD.

My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declares to them, for the spirit of whoredom has caused them to err, and they have played the harlot, [departing] from under their God.

They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow of it is good. Therefore your daughters play the harlot, and your brides commit adultery.

I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your brides when they commit adultery. For themselves go apart with harlots, and they sacrifice with the prostitutes. And the people who do not understand shall be ove

Their drink has become sour. They play the harlot continually. Her rulers dearly love shame.

The wind has wrapped her up in its wings, and they shall be put to shame because of their sacrifices.

Their doings will not allow them to turn to their God, for the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they do not know LORD.

They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek LORD, but they shall not find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.

They have dealt treacherously against LORD, for they have borne strange sons. Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.

I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.

But like Adam they have transgressed the covenant. There they have dealt treacherously against me.

And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem. Yea, they have committed iniquity.

When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria. For they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the troop of robbers ravages outside.

And they do not consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own doings have surrounded them; they are before my face.

They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the rulers with their lies.

They are all adulterers. They are as an oven heated by the baker. He ceases to stir [the fire], from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.

For they have made their heart ready like an oven, while they lay in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.

They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings are fallen. There is none among those who call to me.

And the pride of Israel testifies to his face. Yet they have not returned to LORD their God, nor sought him for all this.

And Ephraim is like a silly dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.

When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them. I will bring them down as the birds of the heavens. I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.

Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howl upon their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They rebel against me.

Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet they devise mischief against me.

They return, but not to [him] on high. They are like a deceitful bow. Their rulers shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

[Set] the trumpet to thy mouth. As an eagle [he comes] against the house of LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.

They shall cry to me, My God, we, Israel know thee.

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

He has cast off thy calf, O Samaria. MY anger is kindled against them. How long will it be ere they attain to innocence?

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The blade shall yield no meal. If so be it yields, strangers shall swallow it up.

Israel is swallowed up. They are now among the nations as a vessel in which no man delights.

For they have gone up to Assyria [like] a wild donkey alone by himself. Ephraim has hired lovers.

Yea, though they hire among the nations, I will now gather them, and they shall begin to be diminished because of the burden of the king of rulers.

I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law, but they are counted as a strange thing.

As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it, but LORD does not accept them. He will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins. They shall return to Egypt.

They shall not dwell in LORD's land, but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.

They shall not pour out wine-offerings to LORD, nor shall they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices shall be to them as the bread of mourners. All who eat of it shall be polluted, for their bread shall be for their appetite. It sha

For, lo, they have gone away from destruction, [yet] Egypt shall gather them up. Memphis shall bury them. Their pleasant things of silver, nettles shall possess them. Thorns shall be in their tents.

They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will visit their sins.

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season. But they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that w

Though they bring up their sons, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

Ephraim is smitten. Their root is dried up. They shall bear no fruit. Yea, though they bring forth, yet I will kill the beloved fruit of their womb.

My God will cast them away because they did not hearken to him, and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

Israel is a luxuriant vine that puts forth his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. According to the goodness of their land they have made goodly pillars.

Their heart is divided. Now they shall be found guilty. He will smite their altars. He will destroy their pillars.

Surely now they shall say, We have no king, for we fear not LORD. And the king, what can he do for us?

They speak [vain] words, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars, and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us, and to the hills, Fall on us.

O Israel, thou have sinned from the days of Gibeah. There they stood. The battle against the sons of iniquity does not overtake them in Gibeah.

When it is my desire, I will chastise them. And the peoples shall be gathered against them, when they are bound to their two transgressions.

The more [the prophets] called them, the more they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them on my arms, but they did not know that I healed them.

They shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be their king, because they refused to return [to me].

And my people are bent on backsliding from me. Though they call them to [him who is] on high, none at all will exalt [him].

They shall walk after LORD, who will roar like a lion. For he will roar, and the sons shall come trembling from the west.

They shall come trembling as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria. And I will make them to dwell in their houses, says LORD.

Ephraim feeds on wind, and follows after the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. And they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

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

Is Gilead iniquity? They are altogether false. In Gilgal they sacrifice bullocks. Yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field.

And now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, Let the men who sacrifice kiss the ca

Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the dew that passes away early, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing-floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

According to their pasture, so they were filled. They were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.

Samaria shall bear her guilt, for she has rebelled against her God. They shall fall by the sword. Their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

Those who dwell under his shadow shall return. They shall revive [as] the grain, and blossom as the vine. The scent of it shall be as the wine of Lebanon.