Hosea 2:3-5

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³ or I will strip her naked
    and expose her as in the day she was born,
and make her like a wilderness,
    and turn her into a parched land,
    and kill her with thirst.
⁴ Upon her children also I will have no pity,
    because they are children of whoredom.
⁵ For their mother has played the whore;
    she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, “I will go after my lovers;
    they give me my bread and my water,
    my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.”