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Yet the number of the people of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which can be neither measured nor numbered; and in the place where it was said to them, "You are not my people," it shall be said to them, "Children of the living God."

and I will sow him for myself in the land. And I will have pity on Lo-ruhamah, and I will say to Lo-ammi, "You are my people"; and he shall say, "You are my God."

Afterward the Israelites shall return and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; they shall come in awe to the Lord and to his goodness in the latter days.

Hear the word of the Lord , O people of Israel; for the Lord has an indictment against the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or loyalty, and no knowledge of God in the land.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

My people consult a piece of wood, and their divining rod gives them oracles. For a spirit of whoredom has led them astray, and they have played the whore, forsaking their God.

Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. For the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they do not know the Lord .

For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Israel's pride testifies against him; yet they do not return to the Lord their God, or seek him, for all this.

Israel cries to me, "My God, we—Israel—know you!"

For it is from Israel, an artisan made it; it is not God. The calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces.

Do not rejoice, O Israel! Do not exult as other nations do; for you have played the whore, departing from your God. You have loved a prostitute's pay on all threshing floors.

The prophet is a sentinel for my God over Ephraim, yet a fowler's snare is on all his ways, and hostility in the house of his God.

Because they have not listened to him, my God will reject them; they shall become wanderers among the nations.

I will not execute my fierce anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and no mortal, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath.

Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah still walks with God, and is faithful to the Holy One.

In the womb he tried to supplant his brother, and in his manhood he strove with God.

The Lord the God of hosts, the Lord is his name!

But as for you, return to your God, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God.

I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; I will make you live in tents again, as in the days of the appointed festival.