Hosea 2:2-5

English Standard Version

² “Plead with your mother, plead—
    for ^(A)she is not my wife,
    and I am not her husband—
that she put away ^(B)her whoring from her face,
    and her adultery from between her breasts;
³ lest ^(C)I strip her naked
    and make her as ^(D)in the day she was born,
and ^(E)make her like a wilderness,
    and make her like a parched land,
    and kill her with thirst.
^4 (F)Upon her children also I will have no mercy,
    ^(G)because they are children of whoredom.
⁵ For ^(H)their mother has played the whore;
    she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For ^(I)she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
    who ^(J)give me my bread and my water,
    my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’