Hosea 2:2-4

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The Lord warns the Israelites

² My children, warn your mother!^[a] She is no longer my wife. I am not her husband. Tell her that she must stop living like a prostitute. She must stop having sex with other men instead of me. ³ If she does not return to me, I will remove all her clothes. She will have nothing to wear, like the day when she was born. She will be ashamed. Her life will be useless and empty, like a dry land that has no water. Then I will leave her to die because she has no water to drink. ⁴ I will not show love to her children, because she became pregnant with them as a prostitute.