Hosea 2:2-4

Contemporary English Version

² Accuse! Accuse your mother!
    She is no longer my wife,
and now I, the Lord,
    am not her husband.
Beg her to give up prostitution
    and stop being unfaithful,^[a]
3 or I will strip her naked
    like the day she was born.
I will make her barren
like a desert,
    and she will die of thirst.
⁴ You children are the result
of her unfaithfulness,
    and I'll show you no pity.