1 Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ru-hamah. 2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; 3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. 4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms. 5 For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I 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 LORD.

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 LORD, 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 LORD. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD, 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.

1 Twis met julle moeder, twis; want sy is nie my vrou nie, en Ek is nie haar man nie, en laat sy haar hoerery van haar aangesig verwyder en haar owerspel van haar borste af weg.

2 Anders sal Ek haar naak uittrek en haar neersit soos op die dag van haar geboorte en haar maak soos 'n woestyn, ja, haar stel soos 'n dor land en haar van dors laat sterwe.

3 En Ek sal My oor haar kinders nie ontferm nie, want hulle is kinders uit hoerery gebore.

4 Want hulle moeder het in ontug gelewe, sy wat met hulle swanger was, het skandelike dinge gedoen; want sy het gesê: Ek wil my minnaars agternaloop wat my brood en my water, my wol en my vlas, my olie en my drank gee.

5 Daarom, kyk, Ek sal jou weg met dorings toemaak en om haar 'n muur bou, sodat sy haar paaie nie sal vind nie.

6 En sy sal haar minnaars agternaloop, maar hulle nie inhaal nie; en sy sal hulle soek, maar nie vind nie. Dan sal sy sê: Ek wil heengaan en terugkeer na my vorige man, want toe het ek dit beter gehad as nou.

7 Ja, sy het nie erken dat Ek aan haar die koring en die mos en die olie gegee het nie, ook silwer vir haar vermenigvuldig het en goud, wat hulle vir Ba„l gebruik het.

8 Daarom sal Ek my koring terugneem in die oestyd en my mos op die bepaalde tyd, en wegneem my wol en my vlas wat dien om haar naaktheid te bedek.

9 Ek sal dan nou haar skaamte ontbloot voor die oë van haar minnaars, en niemand sal haar uit my hand red nie.

10 En Ek maak 'n einde aan al haar vreugde, haar feeste, haar nuwemane en haar sabbatte, ja, aan al haar feestye.

11 En Ek sal haar wingerdstok en haar vyeboom verwoes waarvan sy gesê het: Hierdie dinge is my hoereloon wat my minnaars my gegee het; en Ek sal dit tot 'n bos maak, en die wilde diere van die veld sal dit opeet.

12 So besoek Ek dan aan haar die dae van die Ba„ls toe sy vir hulle offerrook laat opgaan het en haar met haar neusring en haar halssierade versier en haar minnaars agternageloop het; maar My het sy vergeet, spreek die HERE.

13 Daarom, kyk, Ek sal haar lok en haar in die woestyn lei en na haar hart spreek.

14 Dan sal Ek haar daarvandaan haar wingerde gee en die dal Agor tot 'n deur van hoop, en daar sal sy antwoord gee soos in die dae van haar jeug en soos die dag toe sy uit Egipteland opgetrek het.

15 En in die dag, spreek die HERE, sal jy My noem: My man; en jy sal my nie meer noem: My Ba„l nie.

16 Dan verwyder Ek die name van die Ba„ls uit haar mond, sodat hulle by hul naam nie meer genoem sal word nie.

17 Verder sluit Ek in die dag vir hulle 'n verbond met die wilde diere van die veld en met die voëls van die hemel en die kruipende diere van die aarde; ja, boog en swaard en oorlog sal Ek verbreek uit die land, en Ek sal hulle in veiligheid laat rus.

18 En Ek sal My met jou verloof tot in ewigheid en My met jou verloof in geregtigheid en in reg en in goedertierenheid en in ontferming.

19 En Ek sal My met jou verloof in trou; dan sal jy die HERE ken.

20 En in die dag sal Ek verhoor, spreek die HERE, Ek sal die hemel verhoor en die sal die aarde verhoor.

21 En die aarde sal die koring verhoor en die mos en die olie, en die sal J¡sreël verhoor.

22 En Ek sal haar vir My saai in die land en My oor Lo-Rug ma ontferm, en aan Lo-Ammi sê: Jy is my volk; en hy sal sê: My God!