Hosea 2:5

For 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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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

4I will not have any mercy on her children, 1 for they are children of prostitution. 1

6Therefore I will build up a hedge to block her way with thorns. 1 I will build up a wall against her 1 so she cannot find her way. 1

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Cross References

Ezra 9:6I said, “My God, I am ashamed and disgraced to raise my face to you, for our iniquities increase over our head, and our guilt grows to the heavens.

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 2:20For I broke your yoke that you had in ancient days; I tore your fetters off you. Still you said, 1 'I will not serve!' since you bowed down on every high hill and beneath every leafy tree, you adulterer. 1

Jeremiah 3:1“If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's wife, 1 will he return to her again? Would that land not be greatly polluted? 1 You have lived as a prostitute who has many lovers; and would you return to me?—this is Yahweh's declaration. 1

Jeremiah 11:13For you Judah, the number of your gods has increased to equal the number of your cities. You have made the number of shameful altars in Jerusalem, incense altars for Baal, equal to the number of her streets.

Jeremiah 44:17For we will certainly do all the things that we said we would do—burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her just as we, our ancestors, our kings, and our leaders did in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. Then we will be filled with food and will prosper, without experiencing any disaster.

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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