1. Say to your brother, My People, and to your sister, Compassion:
2. Level a charge against your mother; plead with her!She is not my wife,and I am not her husband.Let her remove prostitution from her presence,and adultery from between her breasts,
3. or else I will strip her nakedand expose her as on the day she was born.I will make her like a desert,and turn her into a dry land,and make her die of thirst.
4. I will also have no compassion on her childrenbecause they are children of prostitution.
5. Their mother has played the prostitute;she who conceived them has behaved shamefully.She said, "I will seek out my lovers;they give me my bread and my water,my wool and my linen cloth, my oil and my drink."
6. Therefore, I will line her path with thorns;and I will build a wall against her,so that she can’t find her paths.
7. She will go after her lovers,but she won’t catch up with them;she will seek them,but she won’t find them.Then she will say,"I will return to my first husband,for I had it better then than now."
8. She didn’t know that I gave herthe corn, the new wine, and the fresh oil,and that I gave her much silver,and gold that they used for Baal.
9. So now I will take backmy corn in its time,and my wine in its season;and I will take away my wool and my linen cloth,which were to cover her nakedness.
10. Now I will uncover her nakednessin plain view of her lovers,and no one will rescue her from me.
11. I will end all her religious celebrations,her festivals, her new moons, her Sabbath days,and all her sacred seasons.
12. I will destroy her vines and her fig trees,of which she said,"These are my pay,which my lovers have given to me."I will change them into a forest,and the wild animals will eat them.