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>

<t /><p class="poetry">Plead earnestly<n id="1" /> with your<n id="2" /> motherp> <p class="poetry">(for<n id="3" /> she is not my wife, and I am not her husband),p> <p class="poetry">so that<n id="4" /> she might put an end to her adulterous lifestyle,<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">and turn away from her sexually immoral behavior.<n id="6" />p>

<p class="poetry">Their wicked deeds do not allow them to return to their God;p> <p class="poetry">because a spirit of idolatry<n id="1" /> controls their heart,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and they do not acknowledge the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="poetry">Foreigners are consuming what his strenuous labor produced,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">but he does not recognize it!p> <p class="poetry">His head is filled with gray hair,p> <p class="poetry">but he does not realize it!p>

<p class="poetry">I cannot carry out<n id="1" /> my fierce anger!p> <p class="poetry">I cannot totally destroy Ephraim!p> <p class="poetry">Because I am God, and not man &#8211; the Holy One among you &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">I will not come in wrath!p>

<p class="poetry">The labor pains of a woman will overtake him,p> <p class="poetry">but the baby will lack wisdom;p> <p class="poetry">when the time arrives,p> <p class="poetry">he will not come out of the womb!p>

<p class="poetry">Assyria cannot save us;p> <p class="poetry">we will not ride warhorses.p> <p class="poetry">We will never again say, &#8216;Our gods&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">to what our own hands have made.p> <p class="poetry">For only you will show compassion to Orphan Israel!&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">When<n id="1" /> she had weaned &#8216;No Pity&#8217; (Lo-Ruhamah) she conceived again and gave birth to another son.

<p class="poetry">Threshing floors and wine vats will not feed the people,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and new wine only deceives them.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">I will have no pity on her children,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">because they are children conceived in adultery.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Soon<n id="1" /> I will expose her lewd nakedness<n id="2" /> in front of her lovers,p> <p class="poetry">and no one will be able to rescue her from me!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">O Samaria, he has rejected your calf idol!p> <p class="poetry">My anger burns against them!p> <p class="poetry">They will not survive much longer without being punished,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">even though they are Israelites!p>

<t /><p class="poetry">They will not remain in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s land.p> <p class="poetry">Ephraim will return to Egypt;p> <p class="poetry">they will eat ritually unclean food in Assyria.p>

<p class="poetry">My God will reject them,p> <p class="poetry">for they have not obeyed him;p> <p class="poetry">so they will be fugitives among the nations.p>

<p class="poetry">They will return to Egypt!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Assyria will rule over them<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">because they refuse to repent!<n id="3" />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>

<t /><p class="poetry">But I am the <sc>Lordsc> your God,p> <p class="poetry">who brought you out of Egypt.p> <p class="poetry">Therefore, you must not acknowledge any God but me;p> <p class="poetry">except me there is no Savior.p>

<p class="bodytext">She conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. Then the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> said to him, &#8220;Name her &#8216;No Pity&#8217; (Lo-Ruhamah) because I will no longer have pity<n id="2" /> on the nation<n id="3" /> of Israel. For<n id="4" /> I will certainly not forgive<n id="5" /> their guilt.<n id="6" />

<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>