Hosea 2:2-4

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

² “Plead with your mother, plead—
    for she is not my wife,
    and I am 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 make her as in the day she was born,
and make her like a wilderness,
    and set her like a parched land,
    and slay her with thirst.
⁴ Upon her children also I will have no pity,
    because they are children of harlotry.