Hosea 2:3
Otherwise I will strip her naked as the day she was born, and make her like a desert, a barren land, and let her die of thirst.
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4I will have no pity on her children, because they are children of prostitution.
Cross References
Judges 15:18Samson was now extremely thirsty, and he called out to the Lord, saying, “You have achieved this amazing victory through your servant, but now do I have to die of thirst and be captured by the heathen?”
Isaiah 33:9Israel is in mourning and fades away; Lebanon withers in shame; the fields of Sharon have become a desert; the forests of Bashan and Carmel have shed their leaves.
Isaiah 64:10Your holy cities have been turned into a wilderness; Zion has become a desert; yes, even Jerusalem is an abandoned ruin.
Jeremiah 2:31You people of today, think about what the Lord is saying: Israel, have I treated you like an empty desert, or a land of thick darkness? Why are my people saying, “We can go where we like! We don't have to come and worship you any more”?
Jeremiah 12:10Many shepherds have come and destroyed my vineyard; they have trampled down the crops in my field. They have turned my pleasant land into an empty wasteland.
Jeremiah 13:26I will pull your skirts up over your face, so you will be seen naked and ashamed.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 2:2-6
The Sinfulness of Israel. ( b. c. 764.) 1 Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah. 2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; 3 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. 4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children… Read the whole commentary →