Hosea 2:4

I will not have any mercy on her children, 1 for they are children of prostitution. 1

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And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.

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3If 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

5For their mother has been a prostitute, 1 and she who conceived them has acted shamefully. 1 She said, “I will go after my lovers, 1 for they give me my bread and water, 1 my wool and flax, 1 my oil and drink.” 1

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Cross References

2 Kings 9:22When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Are you coming in peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace is there, when the idolatrous acts of prostitution and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel are so many?”

Isaiah 50:1This is what Yahweh says, 1 “Where is the certificate of divorce with which I divorced your mother? 1 To which of my creditors did I sell you? 1 Look, you were sold because of your sins, and because of your rebellion, your mother was sent away. 1

Jeremiah 13:14Then I will smash each man against the other, fathers and children together—this is Yahweh's declaration—I will not pity them or have compassion, and I will not spare them from destruction.'” 1

Ezekiel 8:18So I will also act among them; my eye will not have compassion, and I will not spare them. Though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.”

Hosea 1:2When Yahweh spoke at first through Hosea, he said to him, 1 “Go, take for yourself a wife who is a prostitute. 1 She will have children who are the result of her prostitution. 1 For the land is committing great prostitution 1 by forsaking Yahweh.”

Zechariah 1:12Then the angel of Yahweh answered and said, “Yahweh of hosts, how long will you show no compassion to Jerusalem and to the cities of Judah, which you have been angry with these seventy years?”

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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