Hosea 2:4
Plead 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
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.
In Context
3Say ye unto your achim, Ami (My people); and to your achayot, Ruchamah (Pitied). 1
Cross References
2 Kings 9:22And it came to pass, when Yehoram saw Yehu, that he said, Is it shalom, Yehu? And he answered, What shalom, so long as the zenunei immecha Izevel (harlotries of your mother Jezebel) and her kheshafim (witchcrafts) are so many?
Isaiah 50:1Thus saith Hashem: 1 Where is the Sefer Keritut (Bill of Divorce) 1 by which I sent your Em (Mother) away? 1 Or which Nosheh (Creditor) of Mine is it 1 to whom I have sold you [into slavery]? 1 Behold, for your avonot (iniquities) have ye been sold, 1 and for your peysha'im (rebellions) was your Em sent away. 1
Jeremiah 13:14And I will dash them one against another, even the avot and the banim together, saith Hashem; I will not pity, nor spare, nor have rachamim, but destroy them. 1
Ezekiel 8:18Therefore will I also deal in chemah (fury); Mine eye shall not pity, neither will I spare; and though they cry in Mine oznayim with a kol gadol, yet will I not hear them.
Hosea 1:2The beginning of the Devar Hashem by Hoshea: And Hashem said to Hoshea: Go, take unto thee an eshet zenunim (wife of whoredoms) and yeladim of zenunim; for ha'aretz hath committed great whoredom, by departing from Hashem.
Zechariah 1:12Then the Malach Hashem answered and said, O Hashem Tzva'os, until when wilt Thou withhold mercy on Yerushalayim and on the towns of Yehudah, against which Thou hast been angry these threescore and ten shanah?
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 →