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(2) Rebuke your mother, rebuke her;
for she isn’t my wife, and I’m not her husband.
She must remove her whoring from her face,
and her adulteries from between her breasts.
(3) Otherwise, I will strip her naked
and place her as she was the day she was born,
make her like a desert, place her like a dry land
and kill her with thirst.
(4) I will have no pity on her children,
for they are children of whoring —

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I will not show my love to her children,(A)
    because they are the children of adultery.(B)
Their mother has been unfaithful
    and has conceived them in disgrace.
She said, ‘I will go after my lovers,(C)
    who give me my food and my water,
    my wool and my linen, my olive oil and my drink.’(D)
Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes;
    I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.(E)

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