Hosea 2:1-4

1In Hebrew texts 2:1-23 is numbered 2:3-25. “Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’

Israel Punished and Restored 2“Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adulterous look from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.

3Otherwise I will strip her naked and make her as bare as on the day she was born; I will make her like a desert, turn her into a parched land, and slay her with thirst.

4I will not show my love to her children, because they are the children of adultery.