and I will sow her for myself in the land. And I will have mercy on No Mercy,[8] and I will say to Not My People,[9] 'You are my people'; and he shall say, 'You are my God.' "
And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, 'They are my people'; and they will say, 'The LORD is my God.' "
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
"Plead with your mother, plead -- for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband -- that she put away her whoring from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts;
I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his[4] enemies,
For Israel and Judah have not been forsaken by their God, the LORD of hosts, but the land of the Chaldeans[3] is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.
And I will multiply on you man and beast, and they shall multiply and be fruitful. And I will cause you to be inhabited as in your former times, and will do more good to you than ever before. Then you will know that I am the LORD.