1. “So call your brothers Ammi [My People],and call your sisters Ruhamah [Loved].
2. “Plead with your mother; plead with her.She no longer acts like my wife.She no longer treats me like her husband.Tell her to stop acting like a prostitute.Tell her to remove the lovers from between her breasts.
3. If she refuses, I will strip her.I will leave her as naked as the day she was born.I will turn her into a dry and barren land,and she will die of thirst.
4. I won’t love her children,because they are children of a prostitute.
5. Their mother acted like a prostitute.The woman who became pregnant with them did shameful things.She said, ‘I’ll chase after my lovers.They will give me food and water,wool and linen, olive oil and wine.’
6. “That is why I will block her way with thornbushesand build a wall so that she can’t get through.
7. She will run after her lovers, but she won’t catch them.She will search for them, but she won’t find them.Then she will say, ‘I’ll go back to my first husband.Things were better for me than they are now.’
8. “She doesn’t believe that I gave her grain, new wine, and olive oil.I gave her plenty of silver and gold,but she used it to make statues of Baal.
9. That is why I will take back my grain when it has ripenedand my new wine when it’s in season.I will take away the wool and the linenthat I gave her to cover her naked body.