Hosea 2:1-9 ▼

1 Call your brothers: My People and your sisters: Compassion.

2 Rebuke your mother; rebuke her. For she is not My wife and I am not her husband. Let her remove the promiscuous look from her face and her adultery from between her breasts.

3 Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her as she was on the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and like a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.

4 I will have no compassion on her children because they are the children of promiscuity.

5 Yes, their mother is promiscuous; she conceived them and acted shamefully. For she thought, “ I will go after my lovers, the men who give me my food and water, my wool and flax, my oil and drink.”

6 Therefore , this is what I will do: I will block her way with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so that she cannot find her paths.

7 She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will think,“ I will go back to my former husband, for then it was better for me than now.”

8 She does not recognize that it is I who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil. I lavished silver and gold on her, which they used for Baal.

9 Therefore , I will take back My grain in its time and My new wine in its season; I will take away My wool and linen, which were to cover her nakedness.