² “Rebuke your mother,^(A) rebuke her,
    for she is not my wife,
    and I am not her husband.
Let her remove the adulterous^(B) look from her face
    and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.
³ Otherwise I will strip^(C) her naked
    and make her as bare as on the day she was born;^(D)
I will make her like a desert,^(E)
    turn her into a parched land,
    and slay her with thirst.
⁴ I will not show my love to her children,^(F)
    because they are the children of adultery.^(G)
5 Their mother has been unfaithful
    and has conceived them in disgrace.
She said, ‘I will go after my lovers,^(H)
    who give me my food and my water,
    my wool and my linen, my olive oil and my drink.’^(I)
6 Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes;
    I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.^(J)
7 She will chase after her lovers but not catch them;
    she will look for them but not find them.^(K)
Then she will say,
    ‘I will go back to my husband^(L) as at first,^(M)
    for then I was better off^(N) than now.’
⁸ She has not acknowledged^(O) that I was the one
    who gave her the grain, the new wine and oil,^(P)
who lavished on her the silver and gold^(Q)—
    which they used for Baal.^(R)