Hosea 2:3
If not, I will strip her naked 1 and show her nakedness as on the day that she was born. 1 I will make her like the wilderness, 1 like a parched land, 1 and I will make her die from thirst. 1
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4I will not have any mercy on her children, 1 for they are children of prostitution. 1
Cross References
Judges 15:18Samson was very thirsty and called on Yahweh and said, “You have given this great victory to your servant. But now will I die of thirst and fall into the hands of those who are uncircumcised?”
Isaiah 33:9The land mourns and withers away; Lebanon is ashamed and withers away; + 33:9 Some versions have The land dries up and withers away . 1 Sharon is like a desert plain; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves. 1
Isaiah 64:10Your holy cities have become a wilderness; 1 Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 1
Jeremiah 2:31You who belong to this generation! Pay attention to my word, the word of Yahweh! Have I been a wilderness to Israel? 1 Or a land of deep darkness? Why would my people say, 'Let us wander around, we will not go to you anymore'? 1
Jeremiah 12:10Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard. They have stomped all over my portion of land; 1 they turned my delightful portion into a wilderness, a desolation. 1
Jeremiah 13:26So also I myself will strip your skirts off you, and your private parts will be seen. 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 →