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Say to your brothers, Ammi,[a] and to your sisters, Ruhamah.[b]

Israel’s Unfaithfulness Punished

Plead with your mother, plead—
    for she is not My wife,
    and am I not her husband—
that she put away her harlotry from her face,
    and her adultery from between her breasts,
lest I strip her naked
    and leave her as in the day that she was born,
and turn her into a wilderness,
    and turn her into a dry land,
    and kill her with thirst.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:1 That is, My people.
  2. Hosea 2:1 That is, Pitied.