2 Accuse! Accuse your mother!She is no longer my wife,and now I, the Lord,am not her husband.Beg her to give up prostitutionand stop being unfaithful,
3 or I will strip her nakedlike the day she was born.I will make her barrenlike a desert,and she will die of thirst.
4 You children are the resultof her unfaithfulness,and I'll show you no pity.
5 Your mother was unfaithful.She was disgraceful and said,“I'll run after my lovers.Everything comes from them—my food and drink,my linen and wool,my olive oil and wine.”
6 I, the Lord, will builda fence of thornsto block her path.
7 She will run after her lovers,but not catch them;she will search,but not find them.Then she will say, “I'll returnto my first husband.Life was better then.”
8 She didn't know that her grain,wine, and olive oilwere gifts from me,as were the gold and silvershe used in worshipping Baal.