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Hosea 2:5-7
New Catholic Bible
Hosea 2:5-7
New Catholic Bible
5 I shall strip her bare,[a]
leaving her as naked as the day she was born.
I shall make her as barren as the wilderness
and as parched as the desert,
leaving her to die of thirst.
6 Nor will I feel any pity for her children,
since they are the offspring of adultery.
7 Yes, their mother has been a whore;
she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, “I will go after my lovers;
they will supply me with my bread and my water,
my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.”
Footnotes
- Hosea 2:5 I shall strip her bare: this seems to have been a customary punishment for adultery.