Hosea 2:12

And now will I expose her navlut (lewdness) 1 in the sight of her lovers, 1 and none shall deliver her out of Mine hand. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

In Context

11Therefore will I return, and take away 1 My dagan in the season thereof, 1 and My tirosh in the season thereof, 1 and will take back My wool and My flax 1 given to cover her nakedness. 1

13I will also cause all her masos (exultation, joy) to cease, 1 her Chag (feast), her Chodesh (New Moons), and her Shabbatot, 1 and all her Mo'adim (appointed feasts). 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 5:5And now then; 1 I will tell you now what I will do to my kerem (vineyard): 1 I will take away the hedge thereof, 1 and it shall be grazed upon; 1 and break down the wall thereof, 1 and it shall be trampled down; 1

Isaiah 29:17Is it not yet a very little while, 1 and Levanon shall be turned into a carmel, 1 and the carmel shall be esteemed as a ya'ar (forest)? 1

Jeremiah 8:13I would surely have harvested them, saith Hashem, 1 but no grapes are on the gefen, 1 nor te'enim (figs) on the te'enah (fig tree), 1 even the leaf shall wither; 1 and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them. 1

Jeremiah 26:18Michah the Morashti prophesied in the days of Chizkiyah Melech Yehudah, and spoke to kol Am Yehudah, saying, Thus saith Hashem Tzva'os: 1 Tziyon shall be plowed like a sadeh, 1 and Yerushalayim shall become rubble heaps, 1 and the Har HaBais (Temple Mount) like the bare heights of a ya'ar (forest).

Hosea 5:14For I will be unto Ephrayim like a lion, 1 and as a great lion to the Bais Yehudah; 1 I, even I, will tear and go away; 1 I will carry off, and there will be no one rescuing. 1

Hosea 13:8I will meet them as a dov (bear) that is bereaved of her cubs, 1 and will rip open the covering of their lev, 1 and there will I devour them like a lion; 1 as the wild beast of the sadeh would tear them. 1

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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