Holy Scripture

Hosea 2:4

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“"And I will not have pity on her sons, for they are the sons of fornication, because their mother has committed fornication: she is confounded that conceived them, because she said: I will go after my lovers, that give me bread, and water, and clothes, and oil, and drink." LXX: "And I will not have mercy on her sons,…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Hosea 2:4-5

Source: Septuagint

Original

4Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband: and I will remove her fornication out of my presence, and her adultery from between her breasts:

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In context

2And the children of Judah shall be gathered, and the children of Israel together, and shall appoint themselves one head, and shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.

3Say to your brother, My people, and to your sister, Pitied.

— Hosea 2:4 —

5that I may strip her naked, and make her again as she was at the day of her birth: and I will make her desolate, and make her as a dry land, and will kill her with thirst.

6And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are children of fornication.

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