Hosea 2:4

Hosea 2:4 in other translations

Hosea 2:4 in context

1. 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;
2. 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.
3. 4Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy;
   for they are children of unfaithfulness;
4. 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.’
5. 6Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns,
   and I will build a wall against her,
   that she can’t find her way.