Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel, says Yahweh.

Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.

He had rightly stressed that Morocco had absolutely no intention of respecting the right of the people of Western Sahara to determine their destiny, adding that a failure by South Africa to support the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic would be a betrayal of the country's own struggle against apartheid.