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Hosea 2:3-5
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Hosea 2:3-5
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3 If she refuses to stop her adultery, I will strip her naked and leave her like the day she was born. I will take away her people, and she will be like an empty, dry desert. I will kill her with thirst. 4 I will have no pity on her children because they are the children of prostitution. 5 Their mother has acted like a prostitute. She should be ashamed of what she did. She said, ‘I will go to my lovers,[a] who give me food and water, wool and linen, wine and olive oil.’
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- Hosea 2:5 lovers This means Israel’s false gods. Also in verses 7, 10, 13.
Hosea 2:3-5
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Hosea 2:3-5
New International Version
3 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.
4 I will not show my love to her children,(D)
because they are the children of adultery.(E)
5 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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