Hosea 2:4-6

Living Bible

⁴ And I will not give special favors to her children as I would to my own, for they are not my children; they belong to other men.

⁵ “For their mother has committed adultery. She did a shameful thing when she said, ‘I’ll run after other men and sell myself to them for food and drinks and clothes.’

⁶ “But I will fence her in with briars and thornbushes; I’ll block the road before her to make her lose her way, so that