Hosea 2:1-3

The Voice

Jezreel means “God sows [seed].” He will bring the people back to their land, and they’ll never be uprooted again.

2 Eternal One (to the future reunited people): Give your brothers a new name: My People;
        and give your sisters a new name too: Shown Mercy.
²    I’m going to publicly charge your mother, Israel, with being unfaithful to Me.
        But you must bring the accusation against her—you bring it—
    Because she’s not My wife anymore and I’m not her husband.

Israel was unfaithful to God by worshiping the fertility gods of her neighbors and forging diplomatic and military alliances with these foreign nations.

    Look at her! She must cease from her whoring ways,
        even her adulteries from her breasts; she must remove her lovers.
³    If she doesn’t stop, I’ll take away all her clothes and jewels
        and leave her as naked as the day she was born.
    I’ll make her like the bare rocks and soil of the desert
        where nothing grows because there’s no rain:
        I’ll kill her with thirst.