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Rh :And it shall come to pass in that day,
 * I will respond, saith the, I will respond to the heavens,
 * And they shall respond to the earth;
 * And the earth shall respond to the corn, and the wine, and the oil;
 * And they shall respond to Jezreel.
 * And I will sow her unto Me in the land;
 * And I will have compassion upon her that had not obtained compassion;
 * And I will say to them that were not My people: 'Thou art My people';
 * And they shall say: 'Thou art my God.'

And the said unto me: 'Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend and an adulteress, even as the  loveth the children of Israel, though they turn unto other gods, and love cakes of raisins.' So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley; and I said unto her: 'Thou shalt sit solitary for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be any man's wife; nor will I be thine.' For the children of Israel shall sit solitary many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without pillar, and without ephod or teraphim; afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the  their God, and David their king; and shall come trembling unto the  and to His goodness in the end of days.


 * Hear the word of the, ye children of Israel!
 * For the hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land,
 * Because there is no truth, nor mercy,
 * Nor knowledge of God in the land.
 * Swearing and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery!
 * They break all bounds, and blood toucheth blood.
 * Therefore doth the land mourn,
 * And every one that dwelleth therein doth languish,
 * With the beasts of the field and the fowls of heaven;
 * Yea, the fishes of the sea also are taken away.


 * Yet let no man strive, neither let any man reprove;
 * For thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
 * Therefore shalt thou stumble in the day,
 * And the prophet also shall stumble with thee in the night;
 * And I will destroy thy mother.
 * My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge;
 * Because thou hast rejected knowledge,
 * I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to Me;
 * Seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God,
 * I also will forget thy children.


 * The more they were increased, the more they sinned against Me;
 * I will change their glory into shame.
 * They feed on the sin of My people,
 * And set their heart on their iniquity.
 * And it is like people, like priest;
 * And I will punish him for his ways,
 * And will recompense him his doings.
 * And they shall eat, and not have enough,
 * They shall commit harlotry, and shall not increase;
 * Because they have left off to take heed to the.