1. “You are to call your brothers, ‘my people,’ and your sisters, ‘you have been shown pity.’
2. “Plead with your mother.Accuse her, because she is no longer my wife,and I am no longer her husband.Tell her to stop acting like a prostitute,to stop behaving like an unfaithful wife.
3. If she refuses, I will strip her nakedand leave her bare like the day she was born.I will make her dry like a desert,like a land without water,and I will kill her with thirst.
4. I will not take pity on her children,because they are the children of a prostitute.
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,who give me my food and water,wool and flax, 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 them.She will look for them,but she won’t find them.Then she will say, ‘I will go back to my first husband,because life was better then for me than it is now.’
8. But she does not know that I was the onewho gave her grain, new wine, and oil.I gave her much silver and gold,but she used it for Baal.