1. Call your brothers: My Peopleand your sisters: Compassion.
2. Rebuke your mother; rebuke her. For she is not My wife and I am not her husband. Let her remove the promiscuous look from her face and her adultery from between her breasts.
3. Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her as she was on the day of her birth.I will make her like a desert and like a parched land,and I will let her die of thirst.
4. I will have no compassion on her children because they are the children of promiscuity.
5. Yes, their mother is promiscuous;she conceived them and acted shamefully. For she thought, “I will go after my lovers, the men who give me my food and water,my wool and flax, my oil and drink.”
6. Therefore, this is what I will do:I will block her way with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall,so that she cannot find her paths.
7. She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them.Then she will think,“I will go back to my former husband, for then it was better for me than now.”
8. She does not recognize that it is I who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil.I lavished silver and gold on her,which they used for Baal.