“Also,
I will have no pity
Upon her children,
Because they are children
Of whoredom.
Their mother
Has played the whore.
She conceived them,
But she has acted shamefully.
She said.
‘I will go after
My lovers.
They give me
My bread,
My water,
My wool,
My flax,
My oil,
My drink.’”
The prophet Hosea also has no pity on his or her children since they were considered the children of a prostitute. She conceived them and bore them, but she had acted shamefully. She went after her lovers in order to get bread, water, wool, flax, oil, and something to drink, basically the necessities of life. Obviously, Gomer, the prostitute, was the Israelite people, who sought their lovers among the various fertility Canaanite gods and Baals.
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