[a]‘Say of your brothers, “My people”, and of your sisters, “My loved one”.

Israel punished and restored

‘Rebuke your mother, rebuke her,
    for she is not my wife,
    and I am not her husband.
Let her remove the adulterous look from her face
    and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.
Otherwise I will strip her naked
    and make her as bare as on the day she was born;
I will make her like a desert,
    turn her into a parched land,
    and slay her with thirst.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:1 In Hebrew texts 2:1-23 is numbered 2:3-25.