2:2 Plead earnestly 3 with your 4 mother
(for 5 she is not my wife, and I am not her husband),
so that 6 she might put an end to her adulterous lifestyle, 7
and turn away from her sexually immoral behavior. 8
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 9 her with thirst.
2:4 I will have no pity on her children, 10
because they are children conceived in adultery. 11
2:5 For their mother has committed adultery;
she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, “I will seek out 12 my lovers; 13
they are the ones who give me my bread and my water,
my wool, my flax, my olive oil, and my wine. 14
2:6 Therefore, I will soon 15 fence her in 16 with thorns;
I will wall her in 17 so that 18 she cannot find her way. 19
2:7 Then she will pursue her lovers, but she will not catch 20 them;
she will seek them, but she will not find them. 21
Then she will say,
“I will go back 22 to my husband, 23
because I was better off then than I am now.” 24
2:8 Yet 25 until now 26 she has refused to acknowledge 27 that I 28 was the one
who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil;
and that it was I who 29 lavished on her the silver and gold –
which they 30 used in worshiping Baal! 31