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.
7. And she will pursue her lovers, but she will not obtain them, and she will seek them, but she will not find them, and she will say, 'I will go and return to my first husband, because it was to some extent better for me then, than it is now.'
8. And she did not know that I gave her grain and wine and oil, and that I increased her silver and gold, which they made into Baal.
9. For this reason, I will turn back, and I will take away my grain in its time and my wine in its time, and I will set free my wool and my flax, which had covered her disgrace.
10. And now, I will reveal her foolishness by the eyes of her lovers, and no man will rescue her from my hand.
11. And I will cause all her joy to cease: her solemnities, her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her feast dates.