Yet it was I who led Ephraim, I took them by the arm; but they did not acknowledge that I had healed them.

“I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt; I will make you live in tents again as in the days of old.

I spoke to the prophets; I myself revealed many visions; I spoke in parables through the prophets.”

But I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt. Therefore, you must not acknowledge any God but me; except me there is no Savior.

Then the Lord said: “Name him ‘Not My People’ (Lo-Ammi), because you are not my people and I am not your God.”

Plead earnestly with your mother (for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband), so that she might put an end to her adulterous lifestyle, and turn away from her sexually immoral behavior.

Woe to them! For they have fled from me! Destruction to them! For they have rebelled against me! I want to deliver them, but they have lied to me.