Then the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel shall be gathered together, and shall set over themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land. For great shall be the day of Jezreel.

And I will not have mercy on her sons, for they are the sons of adulteries.

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

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.

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

And it will be, in that day I will answer, says Jehovah. I will answer the heavens, and they shall answer the earth,

and the earth shall hear the grain and the wine and the oil. And they shall hear Jezreel.

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.

Afterward the sons of Israel shall return and seek Jehovah their God and David their king. And they shall fear Jehovah and His goodness in the ends of the days.

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.

For they shall eat and not have enough. They shall fornicate and not increase, because they have stopped taking heed to Jehovah.

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.

They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because its shade is good. So your daughters shall be harlots, and your brides shall commit adultery.

I will not punish your daughters when they fornicate, nor your wives when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go aside with harlots, and they sacrifice with temple prostitutes. The people who do not understand are thrown down.

Their drink is sour; they are continually fornicating; her rulers dearly love shame.

The wind has bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

Their doings will not allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of fornication is in their midst, and they have not known Jehovah.

They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Jehovah; but they shall not find Him. He has withdrawn Himself from them.

They have acted treacherously against Jehovah, for they have brought out strange sons. Now a new moon shall devour them with their portions.

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.

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

And as troops of robbers wait for a man, the company of priests murder in the way of Shechem; for they committed wickedness.

When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria. For they have worked falsehood. And the thief comes in, the troop of robbers plunders outside.

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 make the king glad with their evil, and the rulers with their lies.

They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker; he stops stirring, from kneading the dough, while it is leavened.

For they have brought their heart near like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps at night; in the morning it burns like a flaming fire.

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.

And the pride of Israel testifies to his face. And they do not return to Jehovah their God, nor seek Him in all this.

Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart; they call to Egypt; they go to Assyria.

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.

They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a deceitful bow; their rulers shall fall by the sword from the rage of their tongue. This shall be their scorn in the land of Egypt.

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.

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?

For they sow the wind, and they reap the whirlwind. It has no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal; if it does yield, strangers shall swallow it up.

Israel is swallowed up; now they shall be among the nations as a vessel in which there is no pleasure.

For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself. Ephraim has hired lovers.

Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now I will gather them. And they began to be few, from the burden of the king of rulers.

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.

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

They shall not pour wine to Jehovah, nor shall they be pleasing to Him. Their sacrifices shall be like the bread of sorrows to them; all who eat of them shall be defiled. For their bread is for their soul, it shall not come into the house of Jehovah.

For lo, they have left because of destruction. Egypt shall gather them up; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess the desirable things of their silver; thorns shall be in their tents.

They have deeply corrupted, as in days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity; He will punish their sins.

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first-fruit in the fig tree at her first time. But they went to Baal-peor and set themselves apart to a shameful thing; and they became abominable like that which they loved.

Though they bring up their sons, yet I will make them childless, without a man. Yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

Ephraim is stricken; their root is dried up; they shall bear no fruit. Yea, though they bear, yet I will slay the beloved ones of their womb.

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

Israel is a luxuriant vine; he brings out fruit to himself. According to the multitude of his fruit, he has increased the altars. They have made beautiful images according to the goodness of his land.

Their heart is divided; now they shall be guilty. He shall break down their altars, and He shall spoil their images.

For now they shall say, We have no king because we did not fear Jehovah; what then should a king do to us?

They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant. So judgment springs up like hemlock in the furrows of the field.

Also the high places 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, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah. There they stood; the battle against the sons of iniquity did not overtake them in Gibeah.

When I desire, I shall bind them; and the peoples shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves to their two perversities.

As they called them, so they went from them. They sacrifice to the Baals, and burn incense to graven images.

I also taught Ephraim to go; He took them on His arm. But they did not know that I healed them.

He shall not return to the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

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

They shall walk after Jehovah; He shall roar like a lion. When He shall roar, then the sons shall tremble from the west.

They shall tremble like a bird out of Egypt, and like a dove out of the land of Assyria. And I will place them in their houses, says Jehovah.

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

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.

Is there iniquity in Gilead? Surely they are vanity; they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal. Yes, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.

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

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

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

Samaria shall become a waste, for she has rebelled against her God. They shall fall by the sword. Their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women shall be ripped up.

They who dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive like the grain, and grow like the vine. Their scent shall be as the wine of Lebanon.