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OEB  ⇔ Accuse, accuse your mother:
 ⇔ for she is not my wife,
 ⇔ and I will not be her husband.
 ⇔ Let her put her acts of infidelity out of her sight,
 ⇔ and her lovers from between her breasts,

WEBBE Contend with your mother!
 ⇔ Contend, for she is not my wife,
 ⇔ neither am I her husband;
 ⇔ and let her put away her prostitution from her face,
 ⇔ and her adulteries from between her breasts;

WMBB (Same as above)

MSG Wild Weekends and Unholy Holidays
(2-13) “Haul your mother into court. Accuse her!
  She’s no longer my wife.
  I’m no longer her husband.
Tell her to quit dressing like a whore,
  displaying her breasts for sale.
If she refuses, I’ll rip off her clothes
  and expose her, naked as a newborn.
I’ll turn her skin into dried-out leather,
  her body into a badlands landscape,
  a rack of bones in the desert.
I’ll have nothing to do with her children,
  born one and all in a whorehouse.
Face it: Your mother’s been a whore,
  bringing bastard children into the world.
She said, ‘I’m off to see my lovers!
  They’ll wine and dine me,
Dress and caress me,
  perfume and adorn me!’
But I’ll fix her: I’ll dump her in a field of thistles,
  then lose her in a dead-end alley.
She’ll go on the hunt for her lovers
  but not bring down a single one.
She’ll look high and low
  but won’t find a one. Then she’ll say,
‘I’m going back to my husband, the one I started out with.
  That was a better life by far than this one.’
She didn’t know that it was I all along
  who wined and dined and adorned her,
That I was the one who dressed her up
  in the big-city fashions and jewelry
  that she wasted on wild Baal-orgies.
I’m about to bring her up short: No more wining and dining!
  Silk lingerie and gowns are a thing of the past.
I’ll expose her genitals to the public.
  All her fly-by-night lovers will be helpless to help her.
Party time is over. I’m calling a halt to the whole business,
  her wild weekends and unholy holidays.
I’ll wreck her sumptuous gardens and ornamental fountains,
  of which she bragged, ‘Whoring paid for all this!’
They will soon be dumping grounds for garbage,
  feeding grounds for stray dogs and cats.
I’ll make her pay for her indulgence in promiscuous religion—
  all that sensuous Baal worship
And all the promiscuous sex that went with it,
  stalking her lovers, dressed to kill,
And not a thought for me.”
  God’s Message!

NET Plead earnestly with your mother
 ⇔ (for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband),
 ⇔ so that she might put an end to her adulterous lifestyle,
 ⇔ and turn away from her sexually immoral behavior.

LSV Plead with your mother—plead
(For she [is] not My wife, and I [am] not her husband),
And she turns her whoredoms from before her,
And her adulteries from between her breasts,

FBV Condemn your mother, condemn her because she is not my wife and I am not her husband. Tell her to stop looking like a prostitute—get rid of the makeup and the provocative clothing.[fn]

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T4T Yahweh also said to me, “I want you to accuse the Israeli people.
 ⇔ It is as though [MET] this nation is your mother,
 ⇔ but this nation is no longer as though it is [MET] my wife,
 ⇔ and it is no longer as though [MET] I am its husband.
 ⇔ Tell the Israeli people that they must stop acting like a prostitute by worshiping other gods;
 ⇔ they must stop showing by their behavior that they ◄are unfaithful to/have abandoned► me [MET].

LEB  • because she is not my wife, •  and I am not her husband. •  Let her put away her whoring[fn] •  and her adultery from between her breasts.

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BBE 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;

Moff (for she is no wife of mine,
 ⇔ and I am not her husband),
 ⇔ bid her clear her face of harlotry,
 ⇔ and her breasts of adulterous charms;

JPS (2-4) Plead with your mother, plead; for she is not My wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her harlotries from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

ASV Contend with your mother, contend; for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

DRA Judge your mother, judge her: because she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her put away her fornications from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts.

YLT Plead ye with your mother — plead, (For she [is] not My wife, and I [am] not her husband,) And she turneth her whoredoms from before her, And her adulteries from between her breasts,

Drby Plead with your mother, plead; for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: and let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

RV Plead with your mother, plead; for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: and let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

Wbstr Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her prostitutions out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

KJB-1769 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

KJB-1611 Plead with your mother, plead: for [fn]she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whordomes out of her sight, and her adulteries from betweene [fn]her breasts;
   (Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whordomes out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;)

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Bshps As for your mother, ye shall chyde with her and reproue her, for she is not my wyfe, neither am I her husbande: let her therefore put away her whordome from her face, and her adulterie from her brestes:
   (As for your mother, ye/you_all shall chyde with her and reprove her, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whordome from her face, and her adulterie from her brestes:)

Gnva Plead with your mother: plead with her: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: but let her take away her fornications out of her sight, and her adulteries from betweene her breasts.
   (Plead with your mother: plead with her: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: but let her take away her fornications out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts. )

Cvdl As for youre mother, ye shal chyde with her, and reproue her: for she is not my wife, nether am I hir hu?bode: vnlesse she put awaye hir whordome out of my sight, and hir aduoutry from hir brestes.
   (As for your(pl) mother, ye/you_all shall chyde with her, and reprove her: for she is not my wife, neither am I her hu?bode: unlesse she put away her whordome out of my sight, and her aduoutry from her brestes.)

Wycl Deme ye youre modir, deme ye, for sche is not my wijf, and Y am not hir hosebonde. Do sche awey hir fornicaciouns fro hir face, and hir auowtries fro the myddis of hir brestis;
   (Deme ye/you_all your(pl) modir, deme ye/you_all, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Do she away her fornicaciouns from her face, and her auowtries from the midst of her brestis;)

Luth Denn es werden die Kinder Juda und die Kinder Israel zuhaufe kommen und werden sich miteinander an ein Haupt halten und aus dem Lande heraufziehen; denn der Tag Jesreels wird ein großer Tag sein.
   (Because it become the children Yuda and the children Israel zuhaufe coming and become itself/yourself/themselves miteinander at a head hold and out_of to_him land heraufziehen; because the/of_the Tag Yesreels becomes a large Tag sein.)

ClVg [Judicate matrem vestram, judicate, quoniam ipsa non uxor mea, et ego non vir ejus. Auferat fornicationes suas a facie sua, et adulteria sua de medio uberum suorum;
   ([Yulet_him_saye mother vestram, yulet_him_saye, quoniam herself not/no wife mea, and I not/no man his. Auferat fornicationes their_own from face sua, and adulteria his_own about in_the_middle uberum suorum; )