And [LORD] said, Call his name Lo-ammi, for ye are not my people, and I will not be yours.

Yet the number of the sons of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered. And it shall come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, it shall be said to them, Th

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

And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she has said, These are my hire 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 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.

Yet, let no man strive, nor let any man reprove, for thy people are as those who strive with the priest.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because thou have rejected knowledge, I also will reject thee, that thou shall be no priest to me. Since thou have forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy sons.

The rulers of Judah are like those who remove the landmark. I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

Therefore I have hewed them by the prophets. I have slain them by the words of my mouth. And thy judgments are [as] the light that goes forth.

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 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.

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.

Strangers have devoured his strength, and he does not know. Yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, and he does not know.

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.

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

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

All their wickedness is in Gilgal, for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no more. All their rulers are rebels.

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.

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].

How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? [How] shall I cast thee off, Israel? How shall I make thee as Admah? [How] shall I set thee as Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me. My compassions are kindled together.

[He is] a Canaanite. The balances of deceit are in his hand. He loves to oppress.

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

It is thy destruction, O Israel, that [thou are] against me, against thy help.

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death. O death, where are thy plagues? O Sheol, where is thy sting? Repentance shall be hid from my eyes.

Who is wise, that he may understand these things, prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them. But transgressors shall fall therein.