Hosea 2:2-14

Israel's Infidelity, Punishment, and Redemption
Plead with your mother, plead�?BR>for she is not my wife,
and I am not her husband�?BR>that she put away her whoring from her face,
and her adultery from between her breasts,
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.

Upon her children also I will have no...

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From the New Revised Standard