1. So call your fellow-Israelites “God's People” and “Loved-by-the-Lord”.
2. My children, plead with your mother — though she is no longer a wife to me, and I am no longer her husband. Plead with her to stop her adultery and prostitution.
3. If she does not, I will strip her as naked as she was on the day she was born. I will make her like a dry and barren land, and she will die of thirst.
4-5. I will not show mercy to her children; they are the children of a shameless prostitute. She herself said, “I will go to my lovers — they give me food and water, wool and linen, olive oil and wine.”
6. So I am going to fence her in with thorn bushes and build a wall to block her way.
21-22. At that time I will answer the prayers of my people Israel.I will make rain fall on the earth,and the earth will produce corn and grapes and olives.