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And I will not have pity on her children,
    because they are children of whoredom.
        Because their mother was unfaithful;[a]
she who conceived them has acted shamefully,
    for she said:
        “I will go after my lovers,
the ones who give me my bread, my water,
    my wool, and my flax,
        my oil, and my drink.”
Therefore, Look!
    I am going to hedge her path[b] with thorns,[c]
        and I will build a stone wall, a stone wall against her,
    and she will not find her paths.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:5 Or “their mother played the whore”
  2. Hosea 2:6 Hebrew “your path”
  3. Hosea 2:6 Literally “with the thorns”