Hosea 2:5

Lest I strip her naked, 1 and set her as bare as the day she was born, 1 and make her as a midbar, 1 and turn her like an eretz tziyyah (parched land), 1 and kill her with tzamah (thirst). 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.

In Context

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

6And I will not have mercy upon her banim; 1 for they are the bnei zenunim. 1

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Cross References

Ezra 9:6And davened, O Elohai, I am ashamed and am disgraced to lift up my face to thee, Elohai, for avonoteinu are increased over our head, and ashmateinu (our guilt) is reached up unto Shomayim.

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 2:20For long ago I have broken thy ol (yoke), 1 and tore off thy bonds; 1 and thou saidst: I will not serve; 1 when upon every high hill 1 and under every green tree 1 thou hast sprawled, playing the zonah. 1

Jeremiah 3:1They say: 1 If an ish put away [in divorce] his isha, 1 and she go from him, 1 and become another manʼs, 1 shall he return unto her again? 1 Shall not that eretz be defiled and greatly polluted? 1 But thou hast played the zonah with re'im rabbim (many lovers); 1 yet shuv (turn) to Me, saith Hashem. 1

Jeremiah 11:13For as many as the mispar (number) of thy towns were thy elohim, O Yehudah; and according to the mispar (number) of the streets of Yerushalayim have ye set up mizbechot to that boshet (shameful ), + 11:13 idol even mizbechot to burn ketoret unto Ba'al.

Jeremiah 44:17But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn ketoret unto the Malkat HaShomayim (the Queen of Heaven), and to pour out nesakhim (drink offerings) unto her, as we have done, we, and Avoteinu, our Melachim, and our Sarim, in the towns of Yehudah, and in the streets of Yerushalayim; for then we had plenty of lechem, and were tovim (well off), and saw no ra'ah.

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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