Hosea 2:4-6
Good News Translation
4-5 I will not show mercy to her children; they are the children of a shameless prostitute.[a] She herself said, “I will go to my lovers—they give me food and water, wool and linen, olive oil and wine.”
6 So I am going to fence her in with thorn bushes and build a wall to block her way.
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- Hosea 2:4 the children of a shameless prostitute; or as shameless as their mother, a prostitute.
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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