He will not respect<n id="1" /> the gods of his fathers &#8211; not even the god loved by women.<n id="2" /> He will not respect any god; he will elevate himself above them all.

<p class="poetry">Then I will plant her as my own<n id="1" /> in the land.p> <p class="poetry">I will have pity on &#8216;No Pity&#8217; (Lo-Ruhamah).p> <p class="poetry">I will say to &#8216;Not My People&#8217; (Lo-Ammi), &#8216;You are my people!&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">And he<n id="2" /> will say, &#8216;You are<n id="3" /> my God!&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">The prophet<n id="1" /> is a watchman<n id="2" /> over Ephraim<n id="3" /> on behalf of God,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">yet traps<n id="5" /> are laid for him along all of his paths;<n id="6" />p> <p class="poetry">animosity rages against him in the land<n id="7" /> of his God.p>

<p class="poetry">Get dressed<n id="1" /> and lament, you priests!p> <p class="poetry">Wail, you who minister at the altar!p> <p class="poetry">Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you servants of my God,p> <p class="poetry">because no one brings grain offerings or drink offeringsp> <p class="poetry">to the temple of your God anymore.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Seek good and not evil so you can live!p> <p class="poetry">Then the <sc>Lordsc>, the God who commands armies, just might be with you,p> <p class="poetry">as you claim he is.p>

<p class="poetry">Hate what is wrong, love what is right!p> <p class="poetry">Promote<n id="1" /> justice at the city gate!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Maybe the <sc>Lordsc>, the God who commands armies, will have mercy on<n id="3" /> those who are left from<n id="4" /> Joseph.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">The sovereign <sc>Lordsc> confirms this oath by his very own life.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc>, the God who commands armies, is speaking:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;I despise Jacob&#8217;s arrogance;p> <p class="poetry">I hate their<n id="2" /> fortresses.p> <p class="poetry">I will hand over to their enemies<n id="3" /> the city of Samaria<n id="4" /> and everything in it.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Look! I am about to bring<n id="1" /> a nation against you, family<n id="2" /> of Israel.&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc>, the God who commands armies, is speaking.p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;They will oppress<n id="3" /> you all the way from Lebo-Hamath<n id="4" /> to the Stream of the Arabah.&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

He said to them, &#8220;I am a Hebrew! And I worship<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="2" /> the God of heaven,<n id="3" /> who made the sea and the dry land.&#8221;

<p class="poetry">I went down<n id="1" /> to the very bottoms<n id="2" /> of the mountains;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">the gates<n id="4" /> of the netherworld<n id="5" /> barred me in<n id="6" /> forever;<n id="7" />p> <p class="poetry">but you brought me<n id="8" /> up from the Pit,<n id="9" /> O <sc>Lordsc>, my God.p>

<t /><p class="poetry"><sc>Lordsc>, you have been active from ancient times;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">my sovereign God,<n id="2" /> you are immortal.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry"><sc>Lordsc>, you have made them<n id="4" /> your instrument of judgment.<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">Protector,<n id="6" /> you have appointed them as your instrument of punishment.<n id="7" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> will terrify them,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for<n id="2" /> he will weaken<n id="3" /> all the gods of the earth.p> <p class="poetry">All the distant nations will worship the <sc>Lordsc> in their own lands.<n id="4" />p>

&#8220;I hate divorce,&#8221;<n id="1" /> says the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel, &#8220;and the one who is guilty of violence,&#8221;<n id="2" /> says the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all. &#8220;Pay attention to your conscience, and do not be unfaithful.&#8221;p>

The prophet<n id="1" /> visited the king of Israel and said, &#8220;This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says: &#8216;Because the Syrians said, &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> is a god of the mountains and not a god of the valleys,&#8221; I will hand over to you this entire huge army.<n id="2" /> Then you will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8217;&#8221;p>

So I, the <sc>Lord,sc> the God who rules over all, the God of Israel, say:<n id="1" /> &#8220;I will soon bring on Judah and all the citizens of Jerusalem all the disaster that I threatened to bring on them. I will do this because I spoke to them but they did not listen. I called out to them but they did not answer.&#8221;&#8217;&#8221;p>

&#8220;The <sc>Lordsc>, the God of heaven, who took me from my father&#8217;s house and the land of my relatives,<n id="1" /> promised me with a solemn oath,<n id="2" /> &#8216;To your descendants I will give this land.&#8217; He will send his angel<n id="3" /> before you so that you may find<n id="4" /> a wife for my son from there.

saying &#8220;Praised be the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his faithful love<n id="1" /> for my master! The <sc>Lordsc> has led me<n id="2" /> to the house<n id="3" /> of my master&#8217;s relatives!&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

Then I bowed down and worshiped the <sc>Lordsc>. I praised the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me on the right path to find the granddaughter<n id="1" /> of my master&#8217;s brother for his son.

The <sc>Lordsc> appeared to him that night and said, &#8220;I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham.&#8221;

and the <sc>Lordsc> stood at its top. He said, &#8220;I am the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac.<n id="1" /> I will give you and your descendants the ground<n id="2" /> you are lying on.