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Say to your brothers, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
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Take up the cause against your mother, take it up, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; let her put away her loose ways from her face, and her false ways from between her breasts;
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For fear that I may take away her robe from her, making her uncovered as in the day of her birth; making her like a waste place and a dry land, causing her death through need of water.
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And I will have no mercy on her children, for they are the children of her loose ways.
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For their mother has been untrue; she who gave them birth has done things of shame, for she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my wine.
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For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.
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And if she goes after her lovers she will not overtake them; if she makes search for them she will not see them; then will she say, I will go back to my first husband, for then it was better for me than now.
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For she had no knowledge that it was I who gave her the grain and the wine and the oil, increasing her silver and gold which they gave to the Baal.
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So I will take away again my grain in its time and my wine, and I will take away my wool and my linen with which her body might have been covered.
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And now I will make her shame clear before the eyes of her lovers, and no one will take her out of my hand.
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And I will put an end to all her joy, her feasts, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her regular meetings.