Hosea 2:3
Lest I strip her naked. And have set her up as [in] the day of her birth, || And have made her as a wilderness, || And have set her as a dry land, || And have put her to death with thirst.
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In Context
4And her sons I do not pity, || For they [are] sons of whoredoms,
Cross References
Judges 15:18and he thirsts exceedingly, and calls to YHWH, and says, “You have given this great salvation by the hand of Your servant; and now, I die with thirst, and have fallen into the hand of the uncircumcised.”
Isaiah 33:9The land has mourned, languished, || Lebanon has been confounded, || Sharon has been withered as a wilderness, || And Bashan and Carmel are shaking.
Isaiah 64:10Your holy cities have been a wilderness, || Zion has been a wilderness, || Jerusalem a desolation.
Jeremiah 2:31O generation, see the word of YHWH: Have I been a wilderness to Israel? A land of thick darkness? Why have My people said, || We wandered freely, || We do not come to You again.
Jeremiah 12:10Many shepherds destroyed My vineyard, || They have trodden down My portion, || They have made My desirable portion || Become a wilderness—a desolation.
Jeremiah 13:26I have also made your skirts bare before your face, || And your shame has been seen.
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 →