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And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, of which she has said, They are my rewards that my lovers have given me. And I will set them for a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth; and they shall no more be remembered by their name.

And it shall be in that day, I will answer, says Jehovah. I will answer the heavens, and they shall answer the earth.

And the earth shall hear the grain, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.

And I will sow her to Me in the earth. And I will have mercy on No Mercy. And I will say to Not My People, You are My people! And they shall say, My God!

Afterward the sons of Israel shall return and seek Jehovah their God and David their king. And they shall fear Jehovah and His goodness in the ends of the days.

They eat up the sin of My people, and they lift their vitality to their iniquity.

For they shall eat and not have enough. They shall fornicate and not increase, because they have ceased heeding Jehovah.

My people seek advice by their wooden idols , and their rod declares to them. For the spirit of harlotry has led them astray, and they fornicated from under their God.

They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains and burn incense on the hills, under oak and poplar and terebinth, because its shade is good. On account of this, your daughters shall prostitute, and your brides shall commit adultery.

I will not punish your daughters when they fornicate, nor your brides when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go aside with harlots, and they sacrifice with temple prostitutes. The people who do not understand are thrustdown.

The wind binds her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

Their doings will not give them to turn to their God. For the spirit of fornication is in their midst, and they do not know Jehovah.

They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Jehovah, but they shall not find Him ; He has withdrawn Himself from them.

I will go; I will return to My place until they confess their guilt and seek My face. In their affliction they will seek Me diligently.

And as troops of robbers wait for a man, the company of priests murder in the way to Shechem; for they have done wickedness.

When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, and the evil of Samaria. For they have worked falsehood; and a thief comes; a troop of robbers plunders outside.

And they do not say within their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their own doings have hemmed them in. They are before My face.

They make the king glad with their evil, and the rulers with their lies.

They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen; not one among them calls to Me.