Hosea 2:2-5
English Standard Version
2 “Plead with your mother, plead—
for (A)she is not my wife,
and I am not her husband—
that she put away (B)her whoring from her face,
and her adultery from between her breasts;
3 lest (C)I strip her naked
and make her as (D)in the day she was born,
and (E)make her like a wilderness,
and make her like a parched land,
and kill her with thirst.
4 (F)Upon her children also I will have no mercy,
(G)because they are children of whoredom.
5 For (H)their mother has played the whore;
she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For (I)she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
who (J)give me my bread and my water,
my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’
Hosea 2:2-5
New American Standard Bible
2 “Dispute with your mother, (A)dispute,
Because she is (B)not my wife, and I am not her husband;
But she must remove her (C)infidelity from her face
And her adultery from between her breasts,
3 Otherwise, I will strip her (D)naked
And expose her as on the (E)day she was born.
I will also (F)make her like a wilderness,
Make her like desert land,
And put her to death with (G)thirst.
4 Also, I will take no pity on her children,
Because they are (H)children of infidelity.
5 For their mother has (I)committed prostitution;
She who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, ‘(J)I will go after my lovers,
Who (K)give me my bread and my water,
My wool and my flax, my (L)oil and my drink.’
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