Hosea 2:4-6

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁴ Upon her children also I will have no pity,
    because they are children of whoredom.
⁵ For their mother has played the whore;
    she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers;
    they give me my bread and my water,
    my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’
⁶ Therefore I will hedge her^[a] way with thorns;
    and I will build a wall against her,
    so that she cannot find her paths.