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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. I will not show love to her children, because she became pregnant with them as a prostitute. Yes, their mother has lived as a prostitute. She became pregnant because she had sex with other men instead of with her husband. She should be ashamed. She herself said, ‘I will go and sleep with my lovers. They give me food and water. They give me wool, linen, olive oil and wine.’[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2:5 Israel is like a girl. When she was born, she had nothing. God gave her the things that she needed to live. Later, she stopped being faithful to God. The men that she loved were false gods. But God wants her to return to him.

Otherwise I will strip(A) her naked
    and make her as bare as on the day she was born;(B)
I will make her like a desert,(C)
    turn her into a parched land,
    and slay her with thirst.
I will not show my love to her children,(D)
    because they are the children of adultery.(E)
Their mother has been unfaithful
    and has conceived them in disgrace.
She said, ‘I will go after my lovers,(F)
    who give me my food and my water,
    my wool and my linen, my olive oil and my drink.’(G)

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