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2"Rename your brothers 'God's Somebody.' Rename your sisters 'All Mercy.'H559H251H5971H269H7355

Wild Weekends and Unholy Holidays

2"Haul your mother into court. Accuse her! She's no longer my wife. I'm no longer her husband. Tell her to quit dressing like a whore, displaying her breasts for sale.H7378H517H7378H802H376H5493H2183H6440H5005H7699 3If she refuses, I'll rip off her clothes and expose her, naked as a newborn. I'll turn her skin into dried-out leather, her body into a badlands landscape, a rack of bones in the desert.H6584H6174H3322H3117H3205H7760H4057H7896H6723H776H4191H6772 4I'll have nothing to do with her children, born one and all in a whorehouse.H7355H1121H1121H2183 5Face it: Your mother's been a whore, bringing bastard children into the world. She said, 'I'm off to see my lovers! They'll wine and dine me, Dress and caress me, perfume and adorn me!'H517H2181H2029H3001H559H3212H310H157H5414H3899H4325H6785H6593H8081H8250 6But I'll fix her: I'll dump her in a field of thistles, then lose her in a dead-end alley.H7753H1870H5518H1443H1447H4672H5410 7She'll go on the hunt for her lovers but not bring down a single one. She'll look high and low but won't find a one. Then she'll say, 'I'm going back to my husband, the one I started out with. That was a better life by far than this one.'H7291H157H5381H1245H4672H559H3212H7725H7223H376H2896H6258 8She didn't know that it was I all along who wined and dined and adorned her, That I was the one who dressed her up in the big-city fashions and jewelry that she wasted on wild Baal-orgies.H3045H5414H1715H8492H3323H7235H3701H2091H6213H1168 9I'm about to bring her up short: No more wining and dining! Silk lingerie and gowns are a thing of the past.H7725H3947H1715H6256H8492H4150H5337H6785H6593H3680H6172 10I'll expose her genitals to the public. All her fly-by-night lovers will be helpless to help her.H1540H5040H5869H157H376H5337H3027 11Party time is over. I'm calling a halt to the whole business, her wild weekends and unholy holidays.H4885H7673H2282H2320H7676H4150 12I'll wreck her sumptuous gardens and ornamental fountains, of which she bragged, 'Whoring paid for all this!' They will soon be dumping grounds for garbage, feeding grounds for stray dogs and cats.H8074H1612H8384H559H866H157H5414H7760H3293H2416H7704H398 13I'll make her pay for her indulgence in promiscuous religion— all that sensuous Baal worship And all the promiscuous sex that went with it, stalking her lovers, dressed to kill, And not a thought for me." GOD's Message!H6485H3117H1168H6999H5710H5141H2484H3212H310H157H7911H5002H3068

To Start All Over Again

14"And now, here's what I'm going to do: I'm going to start all over again. I'm taking her back out into the wilderness where we had our first date, and I'll court her.H6601H3212H4057H1696H3820 15I'll give her bouquets of roses. I'll turn Heartbreak Valley into Acres of Hope. She'll respond like she did as a young girl, those days when she was fresh out of Egypt.H5414H3754H6010H5911H6607H8615H6030H3117H5271H3117H5927H776H4714 16"At that time"—this is GOD's Message still— "you'll address me, 'Dear husband!' Never again will you address me, 'My slave-master!'H3117H5002H3068H7121H376H7121H1180 17I'll wash your mouth out with soap, get rid of all the dirty false-god names, not so much as a whisper of those names again.H5493H8034H1168H6310H2142H8034 18At the same time I'll make a peace treaty between you and wild animals and birds and reptiles, And get rid of all weapons of war. Think of it! Safe from beasts and bullies!H3117H3772H1285H2416H7704H5775H8064H7431H127H7665H7198H2719H4421H776H7901H983 19And then I'll marry you for good—forever! I'll marry you true and proper, in love and tenderness.H781H5769H781H6664H4941H2617H7356 20Yes, I'll marry you and neither leave you nor let you go. You'll know me, GOD, for who I really am.H781H530H3045H3068 21"On the very same day, I'll answer"—this is GOD's Message— "I'll answer the sky, sky will answer earth,H3117H6030H5002H3068H6030H8064H6030H776 22Earth will answer grain and wine and olive oil, and they'll all answer Jezreel.H776H6030H1715H8492H3323H6030H3157 23I'll plant her in the good earth. I'll have mercy on No-Mercy. I'll say to Nobody, 'You're my dear Somebody,' and he'll say 'You're my God!'"H2232H776H7355H7355H3818H559H5971H5971H559H430


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