2 “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 faceand the clothing that exposes her breasts.
3 Otherwise, I will strip her as nakedas she was on the day she was born.I will leave her to die of thirst,as in a dry and barren wilderness.
4 And I will not love her children,for they were conceived in prostitution.
5 Their mother is a shameless prostituteand became pregnant in a shameful way.She said, ‘I’ll run after other loversand sell myself to them for food and water,for clothing of wool and linen,and for olive oil and drinks.’
6 “For this reason I will fence her in with thornbushes.I will block her path with a wallto make her lose her way.
7 When she runs after her lovers,she won’t be able to catch them.She will search for thembut not find them.Then she will think,‘I might as well return to my husband,for I was better off with him than I am now.’
8 She doesn’t realize it was I who gave her everything she has—the grain, the new wine, the olive oil;I even gave her silver and gold.But she gave all my gifts to Baal.