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| [1]Tell your brethren that they are my people, and your sisterne, that they haue obtayned mercy |
[1]Say to your brother, My people, and to your sister, Pitied. |
| [2]As for your mother, ye shall chyde with her and reproue her, for she is not my wyfe, neither am I her husbande: let her therefore put away her whordome from her face, and her adulterie from her brestes |
[2]Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband: and I will remove her fornication out of my presence, and her adultery from between her breasts: |
| [3]Lest I strip her naked, and set her euen as she came into the worlde, and make her as a wyldernesse, and as a drye lande, and slay her for thyrste |
[3]that I may strip her naked, and make her again as she was at the day of her birth: and I will make her desolate, and make her as a dry land, and will kill her with thirst. |
| [4]And I wyll haue no pitie vpon her chyldren: for they be the children of fornication |
[4]And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are children of fornication. |
| [5]Their mother hath played the harlot, and she that bare them is come to confusion: for she sayde, I wyll go after my louers, that geue me my bread and my water, my wooll and flaxe, my oyle and my drinke |
[5]And their mother went a-whoring: she that bore them disgraced them: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, and my garments, and my linen clothes, my oil and my necessaries. |
| [6]Therefore beholde, I wyll stop thy way with thornes, and make a hedge, that she shall not finde her pathes |
[6]Therefore, behold, I hedge up her way with thorns, and I will stop the ways, and she shall not find her path. |
| [7]And though she runne after her louers, yet shall she not ouertake them: she shall seeke them, but not finde them. Then shall she say, I wyll go and returne to my first husbande: for at that tyme it was better with me then nowe |
[7]And she shall follow after her lovers, and shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: and she shall say, I will go, and return to my former husband; for it was better with me than now. |
| [8]And she dyd not knowe that I gaue her corne, and wine, and oyle, and multiplied her siluer and golde, which they bestowed on Baal |
[8]And she knew not that I gave her her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied silver to her: but she made silver and gold images for Baal. |
| [9]Therefore wyll I returne and take away my corne in the tyme thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and fet agayne my wooll and my flaxe [whiche I gaue her] to couer her shame |
[9]Therefore I will return, and take away my corn in its season, and my wine in its time; and I will take away my raiment and my linen clothes, so that she shall not cover her nakedness. |
| [10]And nowe wyll I discouer her shame [euen] in the sight of her louers, and no man shall deliuer her out of my handes |
[10]And now I will expose her uncleanness before her lovers, and no one shall by any means deliver her out of my hand. |
| [11]Moreouer, I wyll take away all her myrth, her holy dayes, her newe moones, her Sabbathes, and all her solempne feastes |
[11]And I will take away all her gladness, her feasts, and her festivals at the new moon, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies. |
| [12]I wyll destroy her vineyardes and figtrees, whereof she sayde: These are my rewardes that my louers haue geuen me, I wyll make them as a wood, and wylde beastes shall eate them vp |
[12]And I will utterly destroy her vines, and her fig-trees, all things of which she said, These are my hire which my lovers have given me: and I will make them a testimony, and the wild beasts of the field, and the birds of the sky, and the reptiles of the earth shall devour them. |
| [13]I wyll visite vpon her the dayes of Baal wherein she burned incense to hym, and decked her selfe with eareringes and iewels, she folowed her louers, and forgate me saith the Lorde |
[13]And I will recompense on her the days of Baalim, wherein she sacrificed to them, and put on her ear-rings, and her necklaces, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith the Lord. |
| [14]Wherefore beholde, I wyll allure her and bryng her into the wildernesse, and speake frendly vnto her |
[14]Therefore, behold, I will cause her to err, and will make her as desolate, and will speak comfortably to her. |
| [15]From thence wyll I geue her her vineyardes agayne, yea and the valley of Achor for an entry of hope: and she shall sing there as in the dayes of her youth, and as in the day when she came vp out of the lande of Egypt |
[15]And I will giver her possessions from thence, and the valley of Achor to open her understanding: and she shall be afflicted there according to the days of her infancy, and according to the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt. |
| [16]And at that day (saith the Lord) thou shalt call me, O my husbande, and shalt call me no more Baal |
[16]And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that she shall call me, My husband, and shall no longer call me Baalim. |
| [17]For I wyll take away those names of Baal from her mouth, yea she shall neuer remember their names any more |
[17]And I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and their names shall be remembered no more at all. |
| [18]Then wyll I make a couenaunt for them, with the beastes of the fielde, with the foules of the ayre, and with euery thing that creepeth vpon the earth: As for bowe, sworde, and battayle, I wyll destroy out of the lande, and wyll make them to sleepe safely |
[18]And I will make for them in that day a covenant with the wild beasts of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the reptiles of the earth: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle from off the earth, and will cause thee to dwell safely. |
| [19]And I wyll marry thee vnto myne owne selfe for euer, yea euen to my selfe wyll I marry thee in righteousnes, in iudgement, in louing kindnesse and mercy |
[19]And I will betroth thee to myself for ever; yea, I will betroth thee to myself in righteousness, and in judgment, and in mercy, and in tender compassions; |
| [20]In faythfulnesse also wyll I marry thee vnto my selfe, and thou shalt know the Lorde |
[20]and I will betroth thee to myself in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord. |
| [21]At the same tyme wyll I shewe my selfe gratious vnto the heauens saith the Lorde, and the heauens shall helpe the earth |
[21]And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, I will hearken to the heaven, and it shall hearken to the earth; |
| [22]And the earth shall helpe the corne, wine, and oyle: and they shall helpe Iezrahel |
[22]and the earth shall hearken to the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hearken to Jezrael. |
| [23]And I wyll sowe her for my selfe in the earth, and wyll haue mercy vpon her that had not obtayned mercy: And to them whiche were not my people, I wyll say, Thou art my people: and they shall say, Thou art my God |
[23]And I will sow her to me on the earth; and will love her that was not loved, and will say to that which was not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art the Lord my God. |