American King James Version
"And I will not have mercy on her children; for they be the children of prostitutions. "
— Hosea 2:4, American King James Version
“And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.”
“Yea, upon her children will I have no mercy; for they are children of whoredom; ”
“Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; for they are children of unfaithfulness;”
“I will have no pity on her children, because they are children conceived in adultery.”
“And I will not have mercy on her children, for they are the children of fornications.”
“And I will have no mercy on her children, for they are the children of her loose ways.”
“And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.”
Say you to your brothers, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her prostitutions out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
And I will not have mercy on her children; for they be the children of prostitutions.
For their mother has played the harlot: she that conceived them has done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink. ¶
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.