Hosea 2:11

And I will cause all her joy to cease: her solemnities, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her feast dates.

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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 reveal her foolishness by the eyes of her lovers, and no man will rescue her from my hand.

12And I will corrupt her vines and her fig trees, about which she said, ‘These rewards, they are mine, my lovers have given them to me.’ And I will place her in a narrow forest, and the beasts of the field will devour her.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:20Your labor will be consumed to no purpose; the land will not bring forth seedlings, nor will the trees provide their fruit.

Isaiah 1:13You should no longer offer sacrifice in vain. Incense is an abomination to me. The new moons and the Sabbaths and the other feast days, I will not receive. Your gatherings are iniquitous.

Jeremiah 7:34And from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, I will cause the cessation of the voice of gladness and the voice of rejoicing, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride. For the land will be in utter desolation.”

Jeremiah 25:10And I will perish from them the voice of gladness and the voice of rejoicing, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstone and the light of the lamp.

Hosea 3:4For the sons of Israel will sit for many days without a king, and without a leader, and without sacrifice, and without altar, and without priestly vestments, and without religious symbols.

Hosea 9:2The threshing floor and the oil press will not feed them, and the wine will deceive 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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