Pleadwithyourmother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteriesfrombetween her breasts;
Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her withthirst.
For theirmotherhathplayed the harlot: she thatconceivedthemhathdoneshamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, thatgive me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
And she shallfollowafter her lovers, but she shall not overtakethem; and she shallseekthem, but shall not findthem: thenshall she say, I will go and return to my firsthusband; for then was it betterwith me than now.
Thereforewill I return, and takeaway my corn in the timethereof, and my wine in the seasonthereof, and willrecover my wool and my flaxgiven to cover her nakedness.
And I willdestroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hathsaid, These are my rewardsthat my lovershavegiven me: and I willmakethem a forest, and the beasts of the fieldshall eat them.
And I willvisitupon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burnedincense to them, and she deckedherselfwith her earrings and her jewels, and she wentafter her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.
And I willgive her her vineyardsfromthence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shallsingthere, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
And in that day will I make a covenant for themwith the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creepingthings of the ground: and I willbreak the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and willmakethem to lie downsafely.
And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I willhavemercyupon her that had not obtainedmercy; and I will say to themwhichwere not my people, Thou art my people; and theyshall say, Thou art my God.