Israel’s Adultery Rebuked

Rebuke your mother; rebuke her.(A)
For she is not my wife and I am not her husband.(B)
Let her remove the promiscuous look from her face(C)
and her adultery from between her breasts.
Otherwise, I will strip her naked(D)
and expose her as she was on the day of her birth.
I will make her like a desert(E)
and like a parched land,
and I will let her die of thirst.(F)
I will have no compassion on her children(G)
because they are the children of promiscuity.
Yes, their mother is promiscuous;
she conceived them and acted shamefully.(H)
For she thought, “I will follow my lovers,(I)
the men who give me my food and water,
my wool and flax, my oil and drink.”(J)

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