1. [2:3] Say ye unto your achim, Ami (My people); and to your achayot, Ruchamah (Pitied).
2. [2:4] Plead with immechem (your mother), plead; for she is not my isha (wife), neither am I her ish (husband); let her therefore put away her zenunim (whoredoms) out of her sight, and her na'afufim (adulteries) from between her breasts;
3. [2:5] Lest I strip her naked, and set her as bare as the day she was born, and make her as a midbar, and turn her like an eretz tziyyah (parched land), and kill her with tzamah (thirst).
4. [2:6] And I will not have mercy upon her banim; for they are the bnei zenunim.