² As for your mother, ye shall chide with her, and reprove her: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband, unless she put away her whoredoms out of my sight, and her adultery from her breasts. ³ If no, I shall strip her naked, and set her, even as she came into the world. Yea, I shall lay her waste, and make her like a wilderness, and slay her for thirst. ⁴ I shall have no pity also upon her children, for they be the children of fornication. ⁵ Their mother hath broken her wedlock, and she that bare them, is come to confusion. For she said, 'I will go after my lovers, that give me my water and my bread, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.' ⁶ "But I will hedge her way with thorns, and stop it, that she shall not find her footsteps: ⁷ and though she run after her lovers, yet shall she not get them: she shall seek them, but not find them. Then shall she say, 'Well, I will go turn again to my first husband, for at that time was I better at ease, than now.' ⁸ And she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold: which they bestowed upon Baal. ⁹ Wherefore now will I go take my corn and wine again in their season, and fet again my wool and my flax, which I gave her to cover her shame. ¹⁰ And now will I discover her foolishness, even in the sight of her lovers, and no man shall deliver her out of my hands. ¹¹ Moreover, I will take away all her mirth, her holidays, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts: ¹² I will destroy her vineyards and fig trees, though she sayeth, 'Lo, here are my rewards, that my lovers have given me.' I will make it a wood, and the wild beasts shall eat it up. ¹³ I will punish her also for the days of Baal, wherein she censed him, decking him with her earrings and chains: when she followed her lovers, and forgat me, sayeth the LORD.