Hosea 2:2-4

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

² Plead with your mother, plead—
    for she is not my wife,
    and I am not her husband—
that she put away her whoring from her face,
    and her adultery from between her breasts,
³ or I will strip her naked
    and expose her as in the day she was born,
and make her like a wilderness,
    and turn her into a parched land,
    and kill her with thirst.
⁴ Upon her children also I will have no pity,
    because they are children of whoredom.