2. My children, plead with your mother — though she is no longer a wife to me, and I am no longer her husband. Plead with her to stop her adultery and prostitution.
3. If she does not, I will strip her as naked as she was on the day she was born. I will make her like a dry and barren land, and she will die of thirst.
4-5. I will not show mercy to her children; they are the children of a shameless prostitute. She herself said, “I will go to my lovers — they give me food and water, wool and linen, olive oil and wine.”
6. So I am going to fence her in with thorn bushes and build a wall to block her way.
7. She will run after her lovers but will not catch them. She will look for them but will not find them. Then she will say, “I am going back to my first husband — I was better off then than I am now.”
8. She would never acknowledge that I am the one who gave her the corn, the wine, the olive oil, and all the silver and gold that she used in the worship of Baal.
9. So at harvest time I will take back my gifts of corn and wine, and will take away the wool and the linen I gave her for clothing.
10. I will strip her naked in front of her lovers, and no one will be able to save her from my power.
11. I will put an end to all her festivities — her annual and monthly festivals and her Sabbath celebrations — all her religious meetings.
12. I will destroy her grapevines and her fig trees, which she said her lovers gave her for serving them. I will turn her vineyards and orchards into a wilderness; wild animals will destroy them.
13. I will punish her for the times that she forgot me when she burnt incense to Baal and put on her jewellery to go chasing after her lovers. The Lord has spoken.
14. So I am going to take her into the desert again; there I will win her back with words of love.