1. “In that day you will call your brothers Ammi—‘My people.’ And you will call your sisters Ruhamah—‘The ones I love.’
2. “But now bring charges against Israel—your mother—for she is no longer my wife,and I am no longer her husband.Tell her to remove the prostitute’s makeup from her faceand the clothing that exposes her breasts.
3. Otherwise, I will strip her as nakedas she was on the day she was born.I will leave her to die of thirst,as in a dry and barren wilderness.
4. And I will not love her children,for they were conceived in prostitution.
5. Their mother is a shameless prostituteand became pregnant in a shameful way.She said, ‘I’ll run after other loversand sell myself to them for food and water,for clothing of wool and linen,and for olive oil and drinks.’