aSay ye unto your brethren, ||Ammi;

And to your sisters, ||Ru-hamah.

2  Plead with your mother, plead:

For bshe is not my wife, neither am I her husband:

Let her therefore put away cher whoredoms out of her sight,

And her adulteries dfrom between her breasts;

3  Lest eI strip her naked, and set her as fin the day that she was born,

And make her gas a wilderness, and set her glike a dry land,

And slay her ghwith thirst.

4  And iI will not have mercy upon her children;

For they be the kchildren of whoredoms.

5  For their mother lhath played the harlot:

mShe that conceived them hath done shamefully:

For she said, nI will go after my lovers,

oThat give me my bread and my water,

pMy wool and my flax, mine oil and my †drink.

6  Therefore, behold, qI will rhedge up thy way with thorns,

And †smake a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

7  And she shall follow after nher lovers, but she shall not overtake them;

And she shall seek them, but shall not find them:

Then shall she say, tI will go and return to my ufirst husband;

tFor then was it better with me than now.

8  For vshe did not know wthat I gave her xcorn, and †xwine, and xoil,

And multiplied her silver and gold,

||Which they prepared for Baal.

9  Therefore will I return, and ytake away my corn in the time thereof,

And my wine in the season thereof,

And will ||recover zmy wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.

10  And now awill I discover her †lewdness in the sight of her lovers,

And none shall deliver her out of mine hand.

11  bI will also cause all her mirth to cease,

cHer eefeast days, deher new moons, and dher sabbaths, and all her eesolemn feasts.

12  And I will †destroy her vines and her fig trees,

Whereof she hath said, fThese are my rewards that fmy lovers have given me:

And gI will make them a forest,

And the beasts of the field shall eat them.