Lexicon :: Strong's G4771 - sy

Yet the number of the Israelites

will be like the sand of the sea,

which cannot be measured or counted.

And in the place where they were told:

You are not my people,

they will be called: Sons of the living God.

Rebuke your mother; rebuke her.

For she is not my wife and I am not her husband.

Let her remove the promiscuous look from her face

and her adultery from between her breasts.

On that day I will make a covenant for them

with the wild animals, the birds of the sky,

and the creatures that crawl on the ground.

I will shatter bow, sword,

and weapons of war in the land[fn]

and will enable the people to rest securely.

I will take you to be my wife forever.

I will take you to be my wife in righteousness,

justice, love, and compassion.

I will take you to be my wife in faithfulness,

and you will know the LORD.

I will sow her[fn] in the land for myself,

and I will have compassion

on Lo-ruhamah;

I will say to Lo-ammi:

You are my people,

and he will say, “You are my God.”

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

Because you have rejected knowledge,

I will reject you from serving as my priest.

Since you have forgotten the law of your God,

I will also forget your sons.

They sacrifice on the mountaintops,

and they burn offerings on the hills,

and under oaks, poplars, and terebinths,

because their shade is pleasant.

And so your daughters act promiscuously

and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.

I will not punish your daughters

when they act promiscuously

or your daughters-in-law

when they commit adultery,

for the men themselves go off with prostitutes

and make sacrifices with cult prostitutes.

People without discernment are doomed.

Israel, if you act promiscuously,

don’t let Judah become guilty!

Do not go to Gilgal

or make a pilgrimage to Beth-aven,[fn]

and do not swear an oath: As the LORD lives!

A wind with its wings will carry them off,[fn]

and they will be ashamed of their sacrifices.

Rebels are deeply involved in slaughter;

I will be a punishment for all of them.[fn]

When Ephraim saw his sickness

and Judah his wound,

Ephraim went to Assyria

and sent a delegation to the great king.[fn]

But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.

This is why I have used the prophets

to cut them down;[fn]

I have killed them with the words from my mouth.

My judgment strikes like lightning.[fn]

Like raiders who wait in ambush for someone,

a band of priests murders on the road to Shechem.

They commit atrocities.

Your calf-idol[fn] is rejected, Samaria.

My anger burns against them.

How long will they be incapable of innocence?

For this thing is from Israel —

a craftsman made it, and it is not God.

The calf of Samaria will be smashed to bits!

The days of punishment have come;

the days of retribution have come.

Let Israel recognize it!

The prophet is a fool,

and the inspired man is insane,

because of the magnitude

of your iniquity and hostility.

You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice;

you have eaten the fruit of lies.

Because you have trusted in your own way[fn]

and in your large number of soldiers,

the roar of battle will rise against your people,

and all your fortifications will be demolished

in a day of war,

like Shalman’s destruction of Beth-arbel.

Mothers will be dashed to pieces

along with their children.

So it will be done to you, Bethel,

because of your extreme evil.

At dawn the king of Israel will be totally destroyed.

I will not vent the full fury of my anger;

I will not turn back to destroy Ephraim.

For I am God and not man,

the Holy One among you;

I will not come in rage.[fn]

I have been the LORD your God

ever since[fn] the land of Egypt.

I will make you live in tents again,

as in the festival days.

I knew[fn] you in the wilderness,

in the land of drought.

I will destroy you, Israel;

you have no help but me.[fn]

Where now is your king,[fn]

that he may save you in all your cities,

and the[fn] rulers[fn] you demanded, saying,

“Give me a king and leaders”?

I give you a king in my anger

and take away a king in my wrath.

Labor pains come on him.

He is not a wise son;

when the time comes,

he will not be born.[fn]

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol.

I will redeem[fn] them from death.

Death, where are your barbs?

Sheol, where is your sting?

Compassion is hidden from my eyes.

Take words of repentance with you

and return to the LORD.

Say to him, “Forgive all our iniquity

and accept what is good,

so that we may repay you

with praise[fn] from our[fn] lips.

“Assyria will not save us,

we will not ride on horses,

and we will no longer proclaim, ‘Our gods! ’

to the work of our hands.

For the fatherless receives compassion in you.”

Ephraim, why should I[fn] have anything more

to do with idols?

It is I who answer and watch over him.

I am like a flourishing pine tree;

your fruit comes from me.