Contend with your mother!
Contend, for she is not my wife,
neither am I her husband;
and let her put away her prostitution from her face,
and her adulteries from between her breasts;
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Hosea 2:2 in context
Hosea 2:1–5
1
“Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’
and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’
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Contend with your mother!
Contend, for she is not my wife,
neither am I her husband;
and let her put away her prostitution from her face,
and her adulteries from between her breasts;
3
lest I strip her naked,
and make her bare as in the day that she was born,
and make her like a wilderness,
and set her like a dry land,
and kill her with thirst.
4
Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy,
for they are children of unfaithfulness.
5
For their mother has played the prostitute.
She who conceived them has done shamefully;
for she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
who give me my bread and my water,
my wool and my flax,
my oil and my drink.’
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