Hosea 2:2-5

Modern English Version

² 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,
³ 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.
⁴ I will not have mercy upon her children,
    for they are children of harlotry.
⁵ For their mother has played the whore.
    She that conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, “I will pursue my lovers,
    who provide my bread and my water,
    my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.”