³⁴ For jealousy enrages a husband,^(A)
and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.

¹⁷ Therefore the Lord does not rejoice
over^[a] Israel’s young men
and has no compassion
on its fatherless and widows,
for everyone is a godless evildoer,^(A)
and every mouth speaks folly.
In all this, his anger has not turned away,
and his hand is still raised to strike.

¹⁸ Their bows will cut young men to pieces.
They will have no compassion on offspring;
they will not look with pity on children.

¹¹ When its branches dry out, they will be broken off.
Women will come and make fires with them,
for they are not a people with understanding.^(A)
Therefore their Maker^(B) will not have compassion on them,
and their Creator will not be gracious to them.

⁶ I was angry with my people;
I profaned my possession,
and I handed them over to you.
You showed them no mercy;
you made your yoke very heavy on the elderly.

Name her Lo-ruhamah,^[a]
for I will no longer have compassion
on the house of Israel.
I will certainly take them away.

⁴ I will have no compassion on her children^(A)
because they are the children of promiscuity.

²³ I will sow her^[a] in the land for myself,^(A)
and I will have compassion^(B)
on Lo-ruhamah;
I will say to Lo-ammi:^(C)
You are my people,^(D)
and he will say, “You are my God.”