Hosea 2:3

Lest I make her as the desert, and like a parched land, And kill her with thirst.

Noyes Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2Contend ye with your mother, contend! For she is not my wife, Nor am I her husband; That she put away lewdness from her face, And adultery from her breasts, Lest I strip her naked, And expose her, as when she was born;

4Upon her sons also I will not have pity, For they are the sons of lewdness.

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Cross References

Isaiah 33:9The land mourneth and languisheth; Lebanon is put to shame, and withered away; Sharon is like a desert, And Bashan and Carmel are stripped of their leaves.

Isaiah 64:10Thy holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Jeremiah 2:31O generation! Behold ye the word of Jehovah! Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of darkness? Why then say my people, “We will rove at pleasure, We will come no more to thee”?

Jeremiah 12:10Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard; They have trodden my portion under foot; My pleasant portion have they made a desolate wilderness.

Jeremiah 13:26Therefore will I lift up thy skirts over thy head, So that thy 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 →

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