1 The number of the Israeliteswill be like the sand of the sea,which can be neither measured nor counted.Instead of being told,“You are Not-My-People,”They will be called,“Children of the living God.”
2 Then the people of Judah and of Israelwill gather together;They will appoint for themselves one headand rise up from the land;great indeed shall be the day of Jezreel!
3 Say to your brothers, “My People,”and to your sisters, “Pitied.”
4 Accuse your mother, accuse!for she is not my wife,and I am not her husband.Let her remove her prostitution from her face.her adultery from between her breasts,
5 Or I will strip her naked,leaving her as on the day of her birth;I will make her like the wilderness,make her like an arid land,and let her die of thirst.
6 I will have no pity on her children,for they are children of prostitution.
7 Yes, their mother has prostituted herself;she who conceived them has acted shamefully.For she said, “I will go after my lovers,who give me my bread and my water,my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.”