H9002–/וְ–v

Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, Neither am I her husband; And let her put away her prostitution from her face, And her adulteries from between her breasts;

וְאָנֹכִ֖י (וְ) ve. “and”וְתָסֵ֤ר (וְ) ve. “and”וְנַאֲפוּפֶ֖יהָ (וְ) ve. “and”

Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; For they are children of unfaithfulness;

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done 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.'

וּמֵימַ֔י (וּ) u. “and”וּפִשְׁתִּ֔י (וּ) u. “and”וְשִׁקּוּיָֽי׃ (וְ) ve. “and”

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, And I will build a wall against her, That she can't find her way.

וּנְתִיבוֹתֶ֖יהָ (וּ) u. “and”

She will follow after her lovers, But she won't overtake them; And she will seek them, But won't find them. Then she will say, 'I will go and return to my first husband; For then was it better with me than now.'

וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹ֣א (וְ) ve. “and”וְאָשׁ֙וּבָה֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

For she did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, And multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

וְהִיא֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַתִּיר֣וֹשׁ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַיִּצְהָ֑ר (וְ) ve. “and”וְכֶ֨סֶף (וְ) ve. “and”וְזָהָ֖ב (וְ) ve. “and”

Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, And my new wine in its season, And will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.

וְתִירוֹשִׁ֖י (וְ) ve. “and”וּפִשְׁתִּ֔י (וּ) u. “and”

Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, And no one will deliver her out of my hand.

וְעַתָּ֛ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְאִ֖ישׁ (וְ) ve. “and”

I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: Her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.

וְשַׁבַּתָּ֑הּ (וְ) ve. “and”וְכֹ֖ל (וְ) ve. “and”

I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, About which she has said, 'These are my wages that my lovers have given me; And I will make them a forest,' And the animals of the field shall eat them.

וּתְאֵ֣נָתָ֔הּ (וּ) u. “and”

I will visit on her the days of the Baals, To which she burned incense, When she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, And went after her lovers, And forgot me," says Yahweh.

וְחֶלְיָתָ֔הּ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֹתִ֥י (וְ) ve. “and”

I will give her vineyards from there, And the valley of Achor for a door of hope; And she will respond there, As in the days of her youth, And as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וִּכְי֖וֹם (וִּ) vi “and”

It will be in that day," says Yahweh, "That you will call me 'my husband,' And no longer call me 'my master.'

וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, And they will no more be mentioned by their name.

וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, And with the birds of the sky, And with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, And will make them lie down safely.

וְעִם־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְרֶ֖מֶשׂ (וְ) ve. “and”וְקֶ֨שֶׁת (וְ) ve. “and”וְחֶ֤רֶב (וְ) ve. “and”וּמִלְחָמָה֙ (וּ) u. “and”

I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.

וּבְמִשְׁפָּ֔ט (וּ) u. “and”וּבְחֶ֖סֶד (וּ) u. “and”וּֽבְרַחֲמִֽים׃ (וּֽ) U. “and”

It will happen in that day, I will respond," says Yahweh, I will respond to the heavens, And they will respond to the earth;

וְהֵ֖ם (וְ) ve. “and”

And the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; And they will respond to Jezreel.

וְהָאָ֣רֶץ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהֵ֖ם (וְ) ve. “and”

I will sow her to me in the earth; And I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; And I will tell those who were not my people, 'You are my people;' And they will say, 'My God!'"

וְה֖וּא (וְ) ve. “and”

Yahweh said to me, "Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins."

וּמְנָאָ֑פֶת (וּ) u. “and”וְהֵ֗ם (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֹהֲבֵ֖י (וְ) ve. “and”

So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.

וְחֹ֥מֶר (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֵ֥תֶךְ (וְ) ve. “and”

I said to her, "You shall stay with me many days. You shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man. I will also be so toward you."

וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”וְגַם־ (וְ) ve. “and”

For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.

וְאֵ֣ין (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֵ֥ין (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֵ֣ין (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֵ֥ין (וְ) ve. “and”וּתְרָפִֽים׃ (וּ) u. “and”

Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.

וְאֵ֖ת (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Hear the word of Yahweh, you children of Israel; For Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "Indeed there is no truth, Nor goodness, Nor knowledge of God in the land.

וְֽאֵין־ (וְֽ) ve. “and”וְאֵֽין־ (וְ) ve. “and”