1. Say to your brothers, Ammi, and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
2. Plead with your mother, plead—for she is not My wife,and am I not her husband—that she put away her harlotry from her face,and her adultery from between her breasts,
3. lest I strip her nakedand leave her as in the day that she was born,and turn her into a wilderness,and turn her into a dry land,and kill her with thirst.
4. I will not have mercy upon her children,for they are children of harlotry.
5. For their mother has played the whore.She that conceived them has acted shamefully.For she said, “I will pursue my lovers,who provide my bread and my water,my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.”
6. Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns,and make a wall, so that she will not find her paths.
7. She will pursue her lovers, but she will not reach them;and she will seek them but will not find them.Then she will say,“I will go and return to my first husband,for it was better for me then than now.”
8. But she did not know that it was I who provided herthe grain, the wine, and the oil,and multiplied her silver and goldthat they used for Baal.
9. Therefore I will take back My grain in its timeand My wine in its season,and I will recover My wool and My flax,given to cover her nakedness.
10. Therefore I will uncover her shamein the sight of her lovers,and no one will deliver her from My hand.
11. I will also bring to an end all her joy,her annual feasts, her New Moons,and her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
12. I will destroy her vines and her fig trees,of which she has said, “These are my rewards that my lovers have given me.”I will make them a forest,and the beasts of the field will eat them.