“Plead with your mother, plead—
    for (A)she is not my wife,
    and I am not her husband—
that she put away (B)her whoring from her face,
    and her adultery from between her breasts;

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Israel Punished and Restored

“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.

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For (A)their mother has played the whore;
    she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For (B)she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
    who (C)give me my bread and my water,
    my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’

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Their mother has been unfaithful
    and has conceived them in disgrace.
She said, ‘I will go after my lovers,(A)
    who give me my food and my water,
    my wool and my linen, my olive oil and my drink.’(B)

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