1. Say to your brethren, ‘My people,’And to your sisters, ‘Mercy is shown.’
2. “Bring charges against your mother, bring charges;For she is not My wife, nor am I her Husband!Let her put away her harlotries from her sight,And her adulteries from between her breasts;
3. Lest I strip her nakedAnd expose her, as in the day she was born,And make her like a wilderness,And set her like a dry land,And slay her with thirst.
4. “I will not have mercy on her children,For they are the children of harlotry.
5. For their mother has played the harlot;She who conceived them has behaved shamefully.For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,Who give me my bread and my water,My wool and my linen,My oil and my drink.’