Hosea 2:2-5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Israel’s Infidelity, Punishment, and Redemption
2 Plead with your mother, plead—
for she is not my wife,
and I am not her husband—
that she put away her prostitution from her face
and her adultery from between her breasts,(A)
3 or I will strip her naked
and expose her as in the day she was born
and make her like a wilderness
and turn her into a parched land
and kill her with thirst.(B)
4 Upon her children also I will have no pity,
because they are children of prostitution.(C)
5 For their mother has prostituted herself;
she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, “I will go after my lovers;
they give me my bread and my water,
my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.”(D)
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.’
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