Hosea 2:4-6
EasyEnglish Bible
4 I will not show love to her children, because she became pregnant with them as a prostitute. 5 Yes, their mother has lived as a prostitute. She became pregnant because she had sex with other men instead of with her husband. She should be ashamed. She herself said, ‘I will go and sleep with my lovers. They give me food and water. They give me wool, linen, olive oil and wine.’[a]
6 So I will stop her living like that. I will put thorn bushes around her, like a wall. Then she will not be able to go anywhere that she likes.
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- 2:5 Israel is like a girl. When she was born, she had nothing. God gave her the things that she needed to live. Later, she stopped being faithful to God. The men that she loved were false gods. But God wants her to return to him.
Hosea 2:4-6
New International Version
4 I will not show my love to her children,(A)
because they are the children of adultery.(B)
5 Their mother has been unfaithful
and has conceived them in disgrace.
She said, ‘I will go after my lovers,(C)
who give me my food and my water,
my wool and my linen, my olive oil and my drink.’(D)
6 Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes;
I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.(E)
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