“How you have helped ¹  the powerless! ²  How you have saved the person who has no strength! ³ 

How you have advised the one without wisdom, and abundantly ¹  revealed your insight!

She is harsh ¹  with her young, as if they were not hers; she is unconcerned about the uselessness of her labor.

For a long time ¹  Israel had no true God, or priest to instruct them, or law.

You are happy because you conquered Lo-Debar. ¹  You say, “Did we not conquer Karnaim ²  by our own power?”

“I made myself available to those who did not ask for me; ¹  I appeared to those who did not look for me. ²  I said, ‘Here I am! Here I am!’ to a nation that did not invoke ³  my name.

Then I will plant her as my own ¹  in the land. I will have pity on ‘No Pity’ (Lo-Ruhamah). I will say to ‘Not My People’ (Lo-Ammi), ‘You are my people!’ And he ²  will say, ‘You are ³  my God!’”

But you banished ¹  the Lord’s priests, Aaron’s descendants, and the Levites, and appointed your own priests just as the surrounding nations do! Anyone who comes to consecrate himself with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of these fake gods! ²