1"Say to your brothers, 'My people!' and to your sisters, 'My loved one!'¶ 2Contend with your mother! 3Lest I strip her naked, 4Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; 5For their mother has played the prostitute. 6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, 7She will follow after her lovers, 8For she did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, 9Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, 10Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, 11I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: 12I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, 13I will visit on her the days of the Baals, 14"Therefore, behold, I will allure her, 15I will give her vineyards from there, 16It will be in that day," says the LORD, 17For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, 18In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, 19I will betroth you to me forever. 20I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; 21It will happen in that day, I will respond," says the LORD, 22and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; 23I will sow her to me in the earth;