Hosea 2:11

And I will put an end to all her joy, her feasts, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her regular meetings.

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In The King James Version

I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.

In Context

10And now I will make her shame clear before the eyes of her lovers, and no one will take her out of my hand.

12And I will make waste her vines and her fig-trees, of which she has said, These are the payments which my lovers have made to me; and I will make them a waste of trees, and the beasts of the field will take them for food.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:20And your strength will be used up without profit; for your land will not give her increase and the trees of the field will not give their fruit.

Isaiah 1:13Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings.

Jeremiah 7:34And in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, I will put an end to the laughing voices, the voice of joy and the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride: for the land will become a waste.

Jeremiah 25:10And more than this, I will take from them the sound of laughing voices, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the stones crushing the grain, and the shining of lights.

Hosea 3:4For the children of Israel will for a long time be without king and without ruler, without offerings and without pillars, and without ephod or images.

Hosea 9:2The grain-floor and the place where the grapes are crushed will not give them food; there will be no new wine for them.

Matthew Henry on Hosea 2:7-14

Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 764.) 6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. 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 shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now. 8 For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal. 9 Therefore… Read the whole commentary →

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