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Read Full Chapter (Hosea 2) Hosea 2:1-5 KJV
"Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ru-hamah. Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms. For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink."
Hosea Chapter 2, Verse 1-5
Hosea 2:1-5 in Context (Verses 1–8 KJV)
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Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ru-hamah. **
2
Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
3
Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
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And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.
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For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.*
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¶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.*
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And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.
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For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.**