OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 3

Hosea 2:3

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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.

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Hosea 2:1–6

1

“Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’

and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’

2

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
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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.’

6

Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns,

and I will build a wall against her,

that she can’t find her way.

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