1 “Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’ᵃᵇ
2 Contend with your mother!
3 lest I strip her naked,
4 Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy,
5 For their mother has played the prostitute.
6 Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns,ᶜᵈ
7 She will follow after her lovers,
8 For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil,
9 Therefore I will take back my grain in its time,
10 Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers,
11 I will also cause all her celebrations to cease:
12 I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,
13 I will visit on her the days of the Baals,
14 “Therefore behold, I will allure her,
15 I will give her vineyards from there,
16 It will be in that day,” says the LORD,
17 For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth,
18 In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field,
19 I will betroth you to me forever.
20 I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness;
21 It will happen in that day, that I will respond,” says the LORD.
22 and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil;
23 I will sow her to me in the earth;