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Furthermore, I’ll not show pity on her children,
    since they are children of prostitution.
Indeed, their mother has committed prostitution—
    the one who has been conceiving them has acted disgracefully—
when she said,
    ‘I’m going after my lovers,
        who provide me food and water,
    as well as my wool, my flax,
        my oil, and my wine.’

“Look how I’m blocking her[a] path with thorns
    and building a wall to hinder[b] her,
        so she can’t find her way.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:6 So with LXX. MT reads your
  2. Hosea 2:6 Lit. wall against