2:2 Plead earnestly 1 with your 2 mother
(for 3 she is not my wife, and I am not her husband),
so that 4 she might put an end to her adulterous lifestyle, 5
and turn away from her sexually immoral behavior. 6
2:3 Otherwise, I will strip her naked,
and expose her like she was when she was born.
I will turn her land into a wilderness
and make her country a parched land,
so that I might kill 7 her with thirst.
2:4 I will have no pity on her children, 8
because they are children conceived in adultery. 9
2:5 For their mother has committed adultery;
she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, “I will seek out 10 my lovers; 11
they are the ones who give me my bread and my water,
my wool, my flax, my olive oil, and my wine. 12
2:6 Therefore, I will soon 13 fence her in 14 with thorns;
I will wall her in 15 so that 16 she cannot find her way. 17
2:7 Then she will pursue her lovers, but she will not catch 18 them;
she will seek them, but she will not find them. 19
Then she will say,
“I will go back 20 to my husband, 21
because I was better off then than I am now.” 22
2:8 Yet 23 until now 24 she has refused to acknowledge 25 that I 26 was the one
who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil;
and that it was I who 27 lavished on her the silver and gold –
which they 28 used in worshiping Baal! 29