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\c 2
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\v 1 Call your male fellow Israelites, 'You are Yahweh's people,' and call your female fellow Israelites, 'Yahweh has been kind to you.'"
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\p
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\q1
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\v 2 Yahweh said to me, "I want you to accuse Israel, who is like a mother to you, of being like an unfaithful wife to me.
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\q1 This nation is no longer like a wife to me,
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\q2 and I am no longer like a husband to her.
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\q1 Tell Israel that they must stop acting like a prostitute; she must stop worshiping idols.
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\q2 Israel must stop worshiping idols. She must stop acting like a woman who leaves her husband and goes to other men.
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\q1
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\v 3 If she does not stop,
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\q1 I will take her clothes off her and make her naked like she was when she was born.
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\q2 I will make her like the barren wilderness—dry and lifeless;
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I will make her like a woman dying from thirst in the desert.
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\q1
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\v 4 I will have no pity on her people, the people of Israel,
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\q2 because their nation is like a prostitute.
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\q1
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\v 5 Israel is like a prostitute;
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\q2 she is like a woman who has had these children from doing shameful things with other men.
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\q1 Israel decided to hurry after these idols whom she loved, to worship other gods.
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\q2 She thought that it was those gods who gave her bread and water.
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\q2 She thought that it was those gods who gave her wool, linen, and olive oil, and also wine to drink.
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\q1
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\v 6 So I will block Israel's road with thornbushes,
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\q1 and I will build a wall around her,
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\q2 so that she cannot find the path to take.
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\q1
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\v 7 Israel will run after her idols
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\q2 but she will not find them.
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\q1 She will search for her false gods,
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\q2 but she will not find them.
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\q1 Then, like a prostitute who wants to return to her husband, she will say to me, 'I will go back to you, the one I loved at first,
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\q2 because my life was better with you than it is now.'
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\v 8 The people will say this, because they did not know that it was I, Yahweh, who had given them their grain, new wine, and olive oil.
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\q2 It was I who had given them much silver and gold so they would become wealthy.
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\q1 But then they made all that gold and silver into objects to use in worshiping the idol Baal.
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\q1
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\v 9 Therefore I will take away from Israel all the grain I gave them.
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\q2 When the wheat is ready for harvest, I will keep them from getting it.
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\q1 The new wine that I gave them, I will take it away.
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\q2 I will take away from them all the wool and linen I gave them to make clothes for themselves,
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\q1 the clothes that covered their nakedness.
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\q1
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\v 10 I will treat Israel as a man treats his wife when he finds her with other men.
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\q1 I will strip her naked in front of her lovers.
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\q2 No one will be able rescue her from what I will do to her.
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\v 11 I will make the people in Israel stop holding their celebrations;
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\q2 they will stop holding their festivals every year.
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\q1 They will no longer celebrate the beginning of every month.
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\q2 They will no longer celebrate the Sabbath days.
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\q1 They will no longer be able to hold the festivals scheduled throughout the year.
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\v 12 I will destroy all of Israel's grapevines and fig trees.
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\q2 This is because Israel is like a woman who says, 'These were the things that my lovers gave me in payment.'
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\q1 I, Yahweh, will turn those places into a forest, a thicket in which no vines can grow,
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\q2 and where wild animals will devour any fruit that grows there.'
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\q1
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\v 13 I will punish this woman named Israel for all the times that she burned incense to worship the Baal idols.
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\q1 She decorated herself with rings and jewelry, as a prostitute would adorn herself for her lovers.
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\q2 She used to follow her lovers—like Israel has gone after the Baals—those false gods that she worshiped.
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\q2 And she forgot about me." This is what Yahweh says.
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\q1
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\v 14 "I will lead her into the wilderness and tell her that I love her.
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\q I will persuade her to love me again.
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\v 15 I will give her vineyards back to her once more,
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\q2 and in the Valley of Achor I will cause her to hope once more.
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\q1 She will answer me with love and delight, as it was back in the first days when we first loved each other—
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\q1 when I set her free, and she came up out of Egypt.
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\v 16 At that time,
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\q2 Israel will call me, 'My Husband,' as a woman would say to her human husband.
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\q2 She will no longer call out to a god, 'My Baal,' but she will call out to me as 'My Husband.'
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\q1
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\v 17 I will not allow Israel to speak the names of the images of Baal that she used to worship.
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\q2 My people will forget the names of those Baals and their idols, and my people Israel will never worship them again.
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\q1
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\v 18 At that time I will make a covenant for them:
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\q2 it will be with all the wild animals and birds,
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\q2 and even with the little animals that crawl along the ground.
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\q2 They will never harm my people again.
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\q1 I will promise to remove all the weapons that are used for fighting battles,
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\q2 the bows and arrows, and the swords, and every war, I will take them all away and destroy all of them.
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\q1 And I will let all of my people rest in peace;
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\q2 they will be not be afraid anymore.
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\q1
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\v 19 You will be like my wife forever, Israel.
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\q2 I will promise myself to you, by doing what is right, and by loving what is just.
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\q2 I promise to love you and to show you kindness even when you do not deserve it.
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\q1
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\v 20 I will keep my promise to you, Israel. I will never lie to you;
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\q2 and you will come to know me—my name is Yahweh.
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\q1
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\v 21 At that time,
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\q2 I will help you," says Yahweh.
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\q1 "I will give a command to the sky,
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\q2 and the sky will pour out rain onto the ground.
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\v 22 And the ground will provide grain, new wine and olive trees, and they will grow in the Valley of Jezreel.
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\q1
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\v 23 At that time, I will take care of the Israelite people
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\q2 as a farmer plants his own land and takes care of his crops.
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\q1 I will show my love to those people whom I called 'Not my People'.
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\q2 And those whom I called 'Not my People',
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\q1 I will now call by a new name: 'You are my People'.
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\q2 They will say to me, 'You are our God.'"
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