Rebuke your mother, rebuke her For she is not my wife and I'm not her husband Let her remove the adulterous look from her face And unfaithfulness from between her breasts Otherwise I will strip her naked and make her as bare as on the day she was born I will make her like a desert turn her into a parched land and slay her with thirst I will not show my love to her children because they are children of adultery Their mother has been unfaithful and concieved them in disgrace She says Ill go back to my lovers Who give me my food and my water My wool, my linen, my oil and my drink Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes I will wall her in, so she cannot find her way She will chase after her lovers but not catch them, she will look for them and not find them She will say ill go back to my husband at first, for I was better off then than I am now She has not acknowledged I was the one, who gave her the grain The new wine, the new oil Who lavished on her with silver and gold In which they used for ba'al Therefore ill take away my grain when it ripens And my new wine when it is ready I will take back my wool and my linen That was intended to cover her nakedness So now I will expose her lewdness Before the eyes of her lovers Noone will take her out of my hands I will stop all her celebrations Her yearly festivals, her new moons, her sabbath days All her appointed feasts I will ruin her vines and her fig trees In which she said was pay from her lovers I will make them a thicket and wild animals will devour them I will punish her for the days That she burned incense to ba'al She decked herself with rings and jewelry And went after her lovers But me she forgot, declares the lord Therefore I will now allure her I will lead her into the wilderness and speak tenderly to her And there I will back to her, her vineyards Make a valley of achor A door of hope And then she will respond as in the days of her youth As in the days she came out of egypt And on that day declares the lord You will call me my husband You will no longer call me, my master I will remove the names of the baal's from her lips No longer will their names be invoked In that day I will make a covenant for them With the beasts of the field The birds in the sky and the creatures that move along the ground Bow and sword and battle I will abolish them from the land So that all may lie down in safety I'll betroth you to me forever I'll betroth you in righteousness and justice in love and compassion I'll betroth you in faithfulness