New International Version

Hosea 2:1-4 New International Version (NIV)

1. “Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’

2. “Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adulterous look from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.

3. Otherwise I will strip her naked and make her as bare as on the day she was born; I will make her like a desert, turn her into a parched land, and slay her with thirst.

4. I will not show my love to her children, because they are the children of adultery.