Hosea 2:4 YLT

²  Plead ye with your mother -- plead, (For she 'is' not My wife, and I 'am' not her husband,) And she turneth her whoredoms from before her, And her adulteries from between her breasts,

³  Lest I strip her naked. And have set her up as 'in' the day of her birth, And have made her as a wilderness, And have set her as a dry land, And have put her to death with thirst.

⁴  And her sons I do not pity, For sons of whoredoms 'are' they,

⁵  For gone a-whoring hath their mother, Acted shamefully hath their conceiver, For she hath said, I go after my lovers, Those giving my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

⁶  Therefore, lo, I am hedging up thy way with thorns, And I have made for her a wall, And her paths she doth not find.