I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, 'You are my people;' and they will say, 'My God.'"

"Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; For your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.

The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water.

Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; it is stained with blood.

I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love; and I was to them like those who lift up the yoke on their necks; and I bent down to him and I fed him.