Hosea 2:3

Say ye unto your achim, Ami (My people); and to your achayot, Ruchamah (Pitied). 1

Orthodox Jewish 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

2Then shall the Bnei Yehudah and the Bnei Yisroel be gathered together, and appoint for them Rosh Echad, + 2:2 Moshiach; see Isa 11; Hos 3:5 and they shall come up out of ha'aretz; for gadol shall be the Yom Yizre'el (Day of Jezreel). + 2:2 G-d will sow

4Plead with immechem (your mother), plead; 1 for she is not my isha (wife), 1 neither am I her ish (husband); 1 let her therefore put away her zenunim (whoredoms) out of her sight, 1 and her na'afufim (adulteries) from between her breasts; 1

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Cross References

Judges 15:18And he was very thirsty, and called on Hashem, and said, Thou hast given this teshu'ah hagedolah (great victory, rescue, salvation) into the yad of thy eved; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the yad of the arelim?

Isaiah 33:9Ha'aretz mourneth and languisheth; 1 Levanon is ashamed and shriveled; 1 Sharon is like an aravah; 1 and Bashan and Carmel shake off their foliage. 1

Isaiah 64:10Beis Kadsheinu v'Tifarteinu, 1 where Avoteinu praised Thee, 1 is burned up with eish; 1 and kol machamadeinu (all our desiring) is in ruins. 1

Jeremiah 2:31O HaDor (Generation), heed ye the Devar Hashem. 1 Have I been a midbar unto Yisroel? 1 An eretz of great darkness? 1 Madu'a (why) say Ami: We are free; 1 we will come no more unto Thee? 1

Jeremiah 12:10Ro'im rabbim (many shepherds) have destroyed My kerem (vineyard), 1 they have trodden My chelek under foot, 1 they have made My chelet chemdat (portion desired) 1 a desolate midbar. 1

Jeremiah 13:26Therefore will I uncover thy skirts over thy panim, 1 that thy shame may appear. 1

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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