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¹ And to your sisters, ‘Mercy is shown.’ ² And her adulteries from between her breasts; ³ And slay her with thirst. ⁴ For they are the children of harlotry. ⁵ My oil and my drink.’ ⁶ So that she cannot find her paths. ⁷ For then it was better for me than now.’ ⁸ Which they prepared for Baal. ⁹ Given to cover her nakedness. ¹⁰ And no one shall deliver her from My hand. ¹¹ All her appointed feasts. ¹² And the beasts of the field shall eat them. ¹³ But Me she forgot,” says the Lord. ¹⁴ And speak comfort to her. ¹⁵ As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt. ¹⁶ And no longer call Me ‘My Master,’ ¹⁷ And they shall be remembered by their name no more. ¹⁸ To make them lie down safely. ¹⁹ In lovingkindness and mercy; ²⁰ And you shall know the Lord. ²¹ And they shall answer the earth. ²² They shall answer Jezreel. ²³ And they shall say, ‘You are my God!’ ”