1. “Your brothers and your sisters will be called ‘my people’ and ‘you have been shown love.’
2. “Plead with your mother.Plead with her because she no longer acts like a wife to me.And I am not treated like her husband.Tell her to stop acting like a prostitute.Tell her to stop behaving like an unfaithful wife.
3. If she refuses, I will strip her naked.I will leave her bare like the day she was born.I will make her dry like a desert.I will make her like a land without water.I will kill her with thirst.
4. I will not take pity on her children.They are the children of an unfaithful wife.
5. Their mother has acted like a prostitute.The one who became pregnant with them has acted disgracefully.She said, ‘I will chase after my lovers.They give me food and water.They give me wool and linen.They give me wine and olive oil.’
6. So I will block her road with thornbushes.I will build a wall around herso she cannot find her way.
7. She will run after her lovers.But she won’t catch up to them.She will look for them.But she won’t find them.Then she will say, ‘I will go back to my first husband.Life was better for me then than it is now.’
8. But she has not accepted that I was the onewho gave her grain, wine and oil.I gave her much silver and gold.But she used it to make statues of Baal.
9. “So I will take away my grain at harvest time.And I will take away my wine when it is ready.I will take back my wool and linen.I gave her those things to cover her nakedness.
10. So I will show her nakedness to her lovers.No one will save her from my punishment.