"The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us."

"For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place."

"I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon."

"The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her."

"¶ And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away."

"I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath."

"I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them."

"O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity."