“lest I strip her naked,and make her bare as in the day that she was born,and make her like a wilderness,and set her like a dry land,and kill her with thirst.”
Hosea 2:3 (WEB)
Context Reading
1“Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’ 2Contend with your mother!Contend, for she is not my wife,neither am I her husband;and let her put away her prostitution from her face,and her adulteries from between her breasts; 3lest I strip her naked,and make her bare as in the day that she was born,and make her like a wilderness,and set her like a dry land,and kill her with thirst. 4Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy,for they are children of unfaithfulness. 5For their mother has played the prostitute.She who conceived them has done 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.’