2. Contend with your mother!Contend, for she is not my wife,neither am I her husband;and let her put away her prostitution from her face,and her adulteries from between her breasts;
3. Lest I strip her naked,and make her bare as in the day that she was born,and make her like a wilderness,and set her like a dry land,and kill her with thirst.
4. Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy;for they are children of unfaithfulness;
5. For their mother has played the prostitute.She who conceived them has done shamefully;for she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,who give me my bread and my water,my wool and my flax,my oil and my drink.’