“Plead with your mother, plead—
    for (A)she is not my wife,
    and I am not her husband—
that she put away (B)her whoring from her face,
    and her adultery from between her breasts;
lest (C)I strip her naked
    and make her as (D)in the day she was born,
and (E)make her like a wilderness,
    and make her like a parched land,
    and kill her with thirst.
(F)Upon her children also I will have no mercy,
    (G)because they are children of whoredom.

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Israel Punished and Restored

“Rebuke your mother,(A) rebuke her,
    for she is not my wife,
    and I am not her husband.
Let her remove the adulterous(B) look from her face
    and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.
Otherwise I will strip(C) her naked
    and make her as bare as on the day she was born;(D)
I will make her like a desert,(E)
    turn her into a parched land,
    and slay her with thirst.
I will not show my love to her children,(F)
    because they are the children of adultery.(G)

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