Hosea 2:2-4

Modern English Version

² Plead with your mother, plead—
    for she is not My wife,
    and am I not her husband—
that she put away her harlotry from her face,
    and her adultery from between her breasts,
³ lest I strip her naked
    and leave her as in the day that she was born,
and turn her into a wilderness,
    and turn her into a dry land,
    and kill her with thirst.
⁴ I will not have mercy upon her children,
    for they are children of harlotry.