Hosea 2:4

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2. Hosea 2:2

   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. Hosea 2:3

   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.

5. Hosea 2:5

   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.

6. Hosea 2:6

   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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