1. Say to your brothers, “You are my people,” and to your sisters, “You have received mercy.”
2. “Plead with your mother, plead—for she is not my wife,and I am not her husband—that she put away her whoring from her face,and her adultery from between her breasts;
3. lest I strip her nakedand make her as in the day she was born,and make her like a wilderness,and make her like a parched land,and kill her with thirst.