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Otherwise, I will strip her naked
    and expose her as she was on the day she was born.
    I will make her like a wilderness.
    I will cause her to be like a dry land.
    I will cause her to die of thirst.
I will have no compassion on her children,
    because they are children of promiscuity,
because their mother has been promiscuous.[a]
    She who conceived them has acted shamefully.
    She said, “I will chase after my lovers,
        the ones who give me my food and my water,
        my wool and my flax, my olive oil and my drinks.”

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  1. Hosea 2:5 Or been a prostitute or acted like a prostitute