^4 (A)Their deeds do not permit them
    to return to their God.
For ^(B)the spirit of whoredom is within them,
    and they know not the Lord.

² “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;