Then you will call<n id="1" /> your<n id="2" /> brother, &#8220;My People&#8221; (Ammi)! You will call your sister, &#8220;Pity&#8221; (Ruhamah)!p>

<p class="poetry">Then I will plant her as my own<n id="1" /> in the land.p> <p class="poetry">I will have pity on &#8216;No Pity&#8217; (Lo-Ruhamah).p> <p class="poetry">I will say to &#8216;Not My People&#8217; (Lo-Ammi), &#8216;You are my people!&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">And he<n id="2" /> will say, &#8216;You are<n id="3" /> my God!&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">They feed on the sin offerings of my people;p> <p class="poetry">their appetites long for their iniquity!p>

<p class="poetry">I have appointed a time to reap judgment<n id="1" /> for you also, O Judah!p><t /><p class="poetry">Whenever I want to restore the fortunes of my people,<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">When I please,<n id="1" /> I will discipline them;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I will gather nations together to attack them,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">to bind them in chains<n id="4" /> for their two sins.<n id="5" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Do not let anyone accuse or contend against anyone else:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for my case is against you priests!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">I will deal with the people and priests together:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will punish them both for their ways,p> <p class="poetry">and I will repay them for their deeds.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Ephraim has mixed itself like flour<n id="1" /> among the nations;p> <p class="poetry">Ephraim is like a ruined cake of bread that is scorched on one side.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">My people are obsessed<n id="1" /> with turning away from me;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">they call to Baal,<n id="3" /> but he will never exalt them!p>

Then the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> said: &#8220;Name him &#8216;Not My People&#8217; (Lo-Ammi), because you<n id="2" /> are not my people and I am not your<n id="3" /> God.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">You have destroyed<n id="1" /> my peoplep> <p class="poetry">by failing to acknowledge me!p> <p class="poetry">Because you refuse to acknowledge me,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I will reject you as my priests.p> <p class="poetry">Because you reject<n id="3" /> the law of your God,p> <p class="poetry">I will reject<n id="4" /> your descendants.p>

<p class="poetry">They consult their wooden idols,p> <p class="poetry">and their diviner&#8217;s staff answers with an oracle.p> <p class="poetry">The wind of prostitution blows them astray;p> <p class="poetry">they commit spiritual adultery<n id="1" /> against their God.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">O Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly<n id="1" /> like the nations,p> <p class="poetry">for you are unfaithful<n id="2" /> to your God.p> <p class="poetry">You love to receive a prostitute's wages<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">on all the floors where you thresh your grain.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">The inhabitants<n id="1" /> of Samaria will lament<n id="2" /> over the calf idol<n id="3" /> of Beth Aven.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">Its people will mourn over it;p> <p class="poetry">its idolatrous priests will wail<n id="5" /> over it,<n id="6" />p> <p class="poetry">because its splendor will be taken from them<n id="7" /> into exile.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">The roar of battle will rise against your people;p> <p class="poetry">all your fortresses will be devastated,p> <p class="poetry">just as Shalman devastated<n id="1" /> Beth Arbel on the day of battle,p> <p class="poetry">when mothers were dashed to the ground with their children.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext"><v id="(2:1)" /><n id="1" /> However,<n id="2" /> in the future the number of the people<n id="3" /> of Israel will be like the sand of the sea which can be neither measured nor numbered. Although<n id="4" /> it was said to them, &#8220;You are not my people,&#8221; it will be said to them, &#8220;You are<n id="5" /> children<n id="6" /> of the living God!&#8221;

<p class="poetry">I will not punish your daughters when they commit prostitution,p> <p class="poetry">nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery.p> <p class="poetry">For the men consort with harlots,p> <p class="poetry">they sacrifice with temple prostitutes.p> <p class="poetry">It is true:<n id="1" /> &#8220;A people that lacks understanding will come to ruin!&#8221;p>