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Say you to your brothers, ‘Ammi’[a]
and to your sisters, ‘Ruhamah’[b].
Contend with your mother, contend!
For she is not My wife nor I her husband.
Let her put away her fornications from her face
and her adulteries from between her breasts.
Or else I will strip her naked
and expose her as on the day she was born.
Then I will make her like a wilderness.
Yes, I will make her like desert land,
and I will let her die of thirst.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:3 Meaning, My people.
  2. Hosea 2:3 Meaning, Shown compassion.