2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her prostitutions out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; Compare verse3 commentaries
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. Compare verse1 commentary
4 And I will not have mercy on her children; for they be the children of prostitutions. Compare verse1 commentary
5 For their mother has played the harlot: she that conceived them has done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink. Compare verse3 commentaries
6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. Compare verse4 commentaries
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. Compare verse4 commentaries
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. Compare verse1 commentary
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. Compare verse2 commentaries
10 And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand. Compare verse1 commentary
11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. Compare verse1 commentary
12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she has 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. Compare verse1 commentary
13 And I will visit on 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 forgot me, said the LORD. Compare verse1 commentary
14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably to her. Compare verse6 commentaries
15 And I will give her her vineyards from there, 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. Compare verse5 commentaries
16 And it shall be at that day, said the LORD, that you shall call me Ishi; and shall call me no more Baali. Compare verse2 commentaries
17 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name. Compare verse2 commentaries
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. Compare verse2 commentaries
19 And I will betroth you to me for ever; yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving kindness, and in mercies. Compare verse7 commentaries
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, said the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; Compare verse2 commentaries
22 And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel. Compare verse1 commentary
23 And I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, You are my people; and they shall say, You are my God. Compare verse7 commentaries