Hosea 2:1-4 English Standard Version (ESV)

1. Say to your brothers, “You are my people,” and to your sisters, “You have received mercy.”

2. “Plead with your mother, plead—for she is not my wife,and I am not her husband—that she put away her whoring from her face,and her adultery from between her breasts;

3. lest I strip her nakedand make her as in the day she was born,and make her like a wilderness,and make her like a parched land,and kill her with thirst.

4. Upon her children also I will have no mercy, because they are children of whoredom.

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