And now what are you doing on the way toward Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? Or what are you doing, going toward Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?

How can you say, I am not defiled; I have not gone after the Baals? See your way in the valley, know what you have done! You are a swift camel crisscrossing its ways.

Why do you gad about so much to change your way? You also shall be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assyria.

O Jerusalem, wash your heart from evil so that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?

I have seen your adulteries, and your neighings, the lewdness of your harlotry, and your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! Will you not be made clean? How long will it still be?

O Samaria, your calf has cast you off. My anger is kindled against them. How long until they attain to innocence?

Jehovah also said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and has committed adultery there.

And I saw, when for all the causes for which backsliding Israel committed adultery, I put her away and gave her a certificate of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she also went and committed adultery.

And Jehovah said to me, Backsliding Israel has shown herself to be more righteous than treacherous Judah.

Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, O backsliding Israel, says Jehovah; and I will not cause My anger to fall upon you; for I am merciful, says Jehovah, and I will not keep anger forever.

Return, O backsliding children, says Jehovah; for I am married to you. And I will take you, one from a city, and two from a family; and I will bring you to Zion.

Return, O backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come to You; for You are Jehovah our God.

But they did not listen, nor extend their ear, but walked in their own plans, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.

Moreover you shall say to them, Thus says Jehovah, Shall they fall and not arise? Shall he turn away and not return?

I listened and heard, but they did not speak right; no man repented of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? Everyone turned to his own course, as a horse rushes into the battle.

O Jehovah, though our iniquities testify against us, work for Your name's sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against You.

Why do you glory in the valleys, your flowing valleys, O backsliding daughter; who trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come against me?

For Israel rebels like a stubborn heifer. Now Jehovah will feed them as a lamb in a large area.

And My people are bent on backsliding from Me. Though they call to the Most High, no one at all exalts Him.

I will heal their backslidings; I will love them freely; for My anger has turned away from him.

But they refused to heed, and gave a stubborn shoulder, and they made their ears heavy that they might not hear.

But if Jehovah creates a new thing, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall understand that these men have rejected Jehovah.

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.

Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign: Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bring forth a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel.

And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS, for He will save His people from their sins.

Then Mary said to the angel, How can this be, since I do not know a man?

And the angel answered and said to her, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God.

But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, brought forth out of a woman, brought forth under the Law,