1 "Say to your brothers, 'You are my people,' and to your sister, 'You have obtained mercy.'
2 Judge your mother, judge: for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove her fornications from before her face and her adulteries from between her breasts.
3 Otherwise, I may expose her nakedness and set her as on the day of her birth, and I may establish her as a wilderness and set her as an impassable land, and I may execute her with thirst.
4 And I will not have mercy on her sons, for they are the sons of fornications.
5 For their mother has been fornicating; she who conceived them has been brought to ruin. For she said, 'I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.'
6 Because of this, behold, I will fence in your way with thorns, and I will surround it with a wall, and she will not find her paths.