Hosea 2:3
that I may strip her naked, and make her again as she was at the day of her birth: and I will make her desolate, and make her as a dry land, and will kill her with thirst.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
4And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are children of fornication.
Cross References
Judges 15:18And he was very thirsty, and wept before the Lord, and said, You have been well pleased to grant this great deliverance by the hand of your servant, and new shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
Isaiah 33:9The land mourns; Libanus is ashamed: Saron is become marshes; Galilee shall be + 33:9 Gr. manifest laid bare, and Chermel.
Isaiah 64:10The city of your holiness has become desolate, Sion has become as a wilderness, Jerusalem a curse.
Jeremiah 2:31Hear you⌃ the word of the Lord: thus says the Lord, Have I been a wilderness or a dry land to Israel? therefore has my people said, We will not be ruled over, and will not come to you any more?
Jeremiah 12:10Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have defiled my portion, they have made my desirable portion a trackless wilderness;
Jeremiah 13:26I also will expose your skirts upon your face, and your shame shall be 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 →