¹⁷ Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:

⁴ Will you not, from this time, make your prayer to me, crying, My father, you are the friend of my early years?

¹⁸ Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

⁸ Now when I went past you, looking at you, I saw that your time was the time of love; and I put my skirts over you, covering your unclothed body: and I gave you my oath and made an agreement with you, says the Lord, and you became mine.

⁵⁹ For this is what the Lord has said: I will do to you as you have done, you who, putting the oath on one side, have let the agreement be broken.

⁶⁰ But still I will keep in mind the agreement made with you in the days when you were young, and I will make with you an eternal agreement.

¹⁴ But you say, For what reason? Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your early years, to whom you have been untrue, though she is your friend and the wife to whom you have given your word.

¹⁵ ... So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years.

¹⁶ For I am against the putting away of a wife, says the Lord, the God of Israel, and against him who is clothed with violent acts, says the Lord of armies: so give thought to your spirit and do not be false in your acts.