3. Say you to your brothers, ‘Ammi’ and to your sisters, ‘Ruhamah’.
4. Contend with your mother, contend! For she is not My wife nor I her husband. Let her put away her fornications from her face and her adulteries from between her breasts.
5. Or else I will strip her naked and expose her as on the day she was born. Then I will make her like a wilderness. Yes, I will make her like desert land, and I will let her die of thirst.
6. I will have no compassion for her children, for they are children of prostitution.
7. For their mother has practiced prostitution. She who conceived them has been shameful. For she said, ‘Let me go after my lovers, who are giving me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’
8. Therefore see, I will hedge her in with thorns, and I will build a wall around her so she cannot find her paths.
9. Then she will chase after her lovers, but she will not overtake them. She will seek them, but not find. Then she will say: ‘Let me go and return to my first husband, for was it better for me then, than now.’