## No Compassion for Children of Harlotry 

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Say to your brothers, "Ammi," and to your sisters, "Ruhamah." 

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"Contend with your mother, contend, For she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; And let her remove her harlotry from her face And her adultery from between her breasts, 

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Lest I strip her naked And set her forth as on the day when she was born And make her like a wilderness And make her like dry land And put her to death with thirst. 

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Also, I will have no compassion on her children Because they are children of harlotry. 

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For their mother has played the harlot; She who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, 'I will go after my lovers, Who give _me_ my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.' 

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Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her way with thorns, And I will build a wall against her so that she cannot find her paths. 

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So she will pursue her lovers, but she will not overtake them; And she will seek them, but will not find _them_. Then she will say, 'I will go, and I will return to my first husband, For it was better for me then than now!' 

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"Now she does not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, And multiplied silver and gold for her, _Which_ they used for Baal. 

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Therefore, I will take back My grain at harvest time And My new wine in its season. I will also deliver My wool and My flax _from them_ _Given_ to cover her nakedness. 

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So now I will uncover her lewdness In the sight of her lovers, And no one will deliver her out of My hand. 

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I will also cease all her joy, Her feasts, her new moons, her sabbaths, And all her appointed times. 

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And I will make desolate her vines and fig trees, Of which she said, 'These are my wages Which my lovers have given me.' And I will make them a forest, And the beasts of the field will devour them. 

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So I will visit the days of the Baals upon her When she used to offer _offerings_ in smoke to them And adorn herself with her earrings and jewelry And go after her lovers, so that she forgot Me," declares Yahweh. 

## Yahweh's Faithful Betrothal 

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"Therefore, behold, I will allure her And bring her into the wilderness And speak to her heart. 

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Then I will give her her vineyards from there And the valley of Achor as a door of hope. And she will sing there as in the days of her youth, As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt. 

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And it will be in that day," declares Yahweh, "_That_ you will call Me Ishi And will no longer call Me Baali. 

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So I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth So that they will be remembered by their names no more. 

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And in that day I will cut a covenant for them With the beasts of the field, The birds of the sky, And the creeping things of the ground. And I will break the bow, the sword, and war from the land, And I will make them lie down in security. 

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And I will betroth you to Me forever; Indeed, I will betroth you to Me in righteousness and in justice, In lovingkindness and in compassion, 

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And I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness. Then you will know Yahweh. 

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"And it will be in that day, _that_ I will answer," declares Yahweh. "I will answer the heavens, and they will answer the earth, 

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And the earth will answer the grain, the new wine, and the oil, And they will answer Jezreel. 

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And I will sow her for Myself in the land. I will also have compassion on her who had not obtained compassion, And I will say to those who were not My people, 'You are My people!' And they will say, '_You are_ my God!'"