Hosea 2:2-5

Good News Translation

Unfaithful Gomer—Unfaithful Israel

² My children, plead with your mother—though she is no longer a wife to me, and I am no longer her husband. Plead with her to stop her adultery and prostitution. ³ If she does not, I will strip her as naked as she was on the day she was born. I will make her like a dry and barren land, and she will die of thirst. ^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.”