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will go after my lovers, that give
me
my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and
my drink.
6
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not
find her paths.
7
And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall
seek them, but shall not find
them:
then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for
then
was it
better with me than now.
8
For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil,
and multiplied her silver and gold,
which
they prepared for Baal.
9
Therefore will I return, and take
away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool
and my flax
given
to cover her nakedness.
10
And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of
her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
11
I will also cause all her mirth to cease,
her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
12
And I will destroy
her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These
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.
13
And I will visit upon
her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings
and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the L
ORD
.
14
Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably
unto her.
15
And I will give her her vineyards from thence, 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.
16
And it shall be at that day, saith the L
ORD
,
that
thou shalt call me Ishi; and
shalt call me no more Baali.
17
For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they
shall no more be remembered by their name.
18
And in that day will I make a covenant for them
with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, 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.
19
And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in
righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.
20
I will even betroth thee
unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the L
ORD
.
21
And it shall come to pass in that day, I
will hear, saith the L
ORD
, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;
22
And the earth
shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.
23
And I will sow her unto
me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to
them
which were
not my people, Thou
art
my people; and they shall say,
Thou art
my God.
CHAPTER 3
Then said the L
ORD
unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of
her
friend, yet an adulteress, according
to the love of the L
ORD
toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of
wine.
2
So I bought her to me for fifteen
pieces
of silver, and
for
an homer of barley, and an half
homer of barley:
3
And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the
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