“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.
For (H)their mother has played the whore;
    she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For (I)she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
    who (J)give me my bread and my water,
    my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’

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Charges against an Unfaithful Wife

“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 face
    and the clothing that exposes her breasts.
Otherwise, I will strip her as naked
    as she was on the day she was born.
I will leave her to die of thirst,
    as in a dry and barren wilderness.
And I will not love her children,
    for they were conceived in prostitution.
Their mother is a shameless prostitute
    and became pregnant in a shameful way.
She said, ‘I’ll run after other lovers
    and sell myself to them for food and water,
for clothing of wool and linen,
    and for olive oil and drinks.’

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