1. ‘Say of your brothers, “My people”, and of your sisters, “My loved one”.
2. ‘Rebuke your mother, rebuke her,for she is not my wife,and I am not her husband.Let her remove the adulterous look from her faceand the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.
3. Otherwise I will strip her nakedand make her as bare as on the day she was born;I will make her like a desert,turn her into a parched land,and slay her with thirst.
4. I will not show my love to her children,because they are the children of adultery.
5. Their mother has been unfaithfuland has conceived them in disgrace.She said, “I will go after my lovers,who give me my food and my water,my wool and my linen, my olive oil and my drink.”
6. Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes;I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.
7. She will chase after her lovers but not catch them;she will look for them but not find them.Then she will say,“I will go back to my husband as at first,for then I was better off than now.”
8. She has not acknowledged that I was the onewho gave her the grain, the new wine and oil,who lavished on her the silver and gold –which they used for Baal.
9. ‘Therefore I will take away my corn when it ripens,and my new wine when it is ready.I will take back my wool and my linen,intended to cover her naked body.
10. So now I will expose her lewdnessbefore the eyes of her lovers;no one will take her out of my hands.