And Jehovah said to him, Call his name God Will Sow. For still in a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.

And it shall be, at that day I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.

And she conceived again and bore a daughter. And God said to him, Call her name No-mercy, for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel. But I will utterly take them away.

But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by Jehovah their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.

And He said, Call his name Not-my-people. For you are not My people, and I will not be for you.

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

For their mother has prostituted herself. She who conceived them has done shamefully. For she said, I will go after my lovers who give my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

Therefore behold, I will hedge your way with thorns, and wall up her wall, that she shall not find her paths.

And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them. She shall seek them, but shall not find them. Then she shall say, I will go and return to my first husband, for then it was better with me than now.

So I will return and take away My grain in its time, and my wine in its season, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.

And now I will uncover her shamefulness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.

I will also cause all her joy to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her appointed feasts.

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.

And I will visit on her the days of the Baals, in which she burned incense to them, and she adorned herself with her nose-rings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers and forgot Me, says Jehovah.

Therefore, behold, I will lure her and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably to her.

And I will give her vineyards to her from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope. And she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

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 in that day I will cut a covenant for them, with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and with the creeping things of the ground. And I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.

And I will betroth you to Me forever. Yea, I will betroth you to Me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving-kindness, and in mercies.

I will even betroth you to Me in faithfulness. And you shall know Jehovah.

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

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.

And I said to her, You shall abide for me many days. You shall not be a harlot, nor be for a man. And I also will be for you.

And you shall stumble in the day, and the prophet also shall stumble with you in the night, and I will cut off your mother.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being priest to Me. Since you have forgotten the Law of your God, I will also forget your sons, even I.

As they were increased, so they sinned against Me. I will change their glory into shame.

And it has become, Like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them for their doings.

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.

For Israel slides back like a backsliding heifer. Now Jehovah will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

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.

The rulers of Judah were like movers of a border; I will pour out My wrath on them like water.

For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a strong lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear and go away. I will take away, and none shall rescue him.

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.

Come and let us return to Jehovah. For He has torn, and He will heal us; He has stricken, and He will bind us up.

After two days He will bring us to life; in the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live in His sight.

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.

Your calf, O Samaria, has cast you off. My anger is kindled against them. Until when will they not attain purity?

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.

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.

For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples. And Judah has multiplied cities. But I will send a fire on his cities, and it shall burn up her palaces.

What will you do in the day of meeting, and in the day of the feast of Jehovah?

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

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!

Give them, O Lord; what will You give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

All their wickedness is in Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them out of My house for the wickedness of their doings. I will love them no more; all their rulers are revolters.

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.

And Ephraim is like a trained heifer, trying to tread out. But I passed over on the goodness of her neck. I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.

I will not carry out the heat of My anger; I will not return to destroy Ephraim. For I am God and not man, the Holy One in your midst; and I will not enter into the city.

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.

Jehovah also has a quarrel with Judah and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings He will repay him.

And I Jehovah, who have been your God from the land of Egypt, will yet make you to dwell in tents as in the days of the appointed feast.

Therefore I will be as a lion to them; as a leopard by the way I will watch them.

I will meet them like a bereaved bear, and will tear the lining of their heart. And there I will devour them like a lion; the wild beast shall tear them.

I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. O Death, where are your plagues; O Grave, where is your ruin! Repentance shall be hidden from My eyes.

Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses. Nor shall we say any more to the work of our hands, Our gods, for in You the fatherless finds mercy.

I will heal their backslidings; I will love them freely; for My anger has turned away from him.

I will be as the dew to Israel; he shall grow as the lily and cast out his roots like Lebanon.