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name Lo-ammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God. Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God. Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.

Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi;

And to your sisters, Ru-hamah.

Plead with your mother, plead:

For she is not my wife, neither am I her husband:

Let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight,

And her adulteries from between her breasts;

Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born,

And make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land,

And slay her with thirst.

And I will not have mercy upon her children;

For they be the children of whoredoms.

For their mother hath played the harlot:

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