5 For your Maker is your husband,
the Lord of hosts is his name;
and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer,
the God tof the whole earth he is called.
3 But you, draw near,
sons of the sorceress,
offspring of the adulterer and the loose woman.
2 “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord,
“I remember the devotion of your ayouth,
your love bas a bride,
how you followed me in the wilderness,
in a land not sown.
1 “If1 a man divorces his wife
and she goes from him
and becomes another man’s wife,
will he return to her?
wWould not that land be greatly polluted?
You have played the whore with many xlovers;
and would you return to me?
declares the Lord.
32 Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!
Hosea’s Wife and Children
2 When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, g“Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great hwhoredom by forsaking the Lord.”
39 But he answered them, p“An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
4 rAn evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except sthe sign of Jonah.” So he left them and departed.
38 For whoever is gashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he hcomes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
