Hosea 2:4-6

New International Reader's Version

⁴ “I won’t show my love to her children.
    They are the children of other men.
⁵ Their mother hasn’t been faithful to me.
    She who became pregnant with them
    has brought shame on herself.
She said, ‘I will chase after my lovers.
    They give me my food and water.
They provide me with wool and linen.
    They give me olive oil and wine.’
⁶ So I will block her path with bushes that have thorns.
    I’ll build a wall around her.
    Then she can’t go to her lovers.