The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: slay her with thirst.
HOS 2:4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the
children of whoredoms.
HOS 2:5 For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived
them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that
give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my
drink.
HOS 2:6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and
make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
HOS 2:7 And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not
overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then
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