Hosea 2:1-5

Israel’s Unfaithfulness Condemned

¹Say to your brothers, “Ammi,” and to your sisters, “Ruhamah.”

2“Dispute with your mother, dispute,

Because she is not my wife, and I am not her husband;

But she must remove her infidelity from her face

And her adultery from between her breasts,

3Otherwise, I will strip her naked

And expose her as on the day she was born.

I will also make her like a wilderness,

Make her like desert land,

And put her to death with thirst.

4“Also, I will take no pity on her children,

Because they are children of infidelity.

5“For their mother has committed prostitution;

She who conceived them has acted shamefully.

For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,

Who give me my bread and my water,

My wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’

Restoration of Israel