Hosea 2:9

So I will take back her grain at harvest time, 1 and my new wine in its season. 1 I will take back my wool and flax 1 that were used to cover her nakedness. 1

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In The King James Version

Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.

In Context

8For she had not known that it was I who gave her 1 the grain, the new wine and the oil, 1 and who lavished on her silver and gold, 1 which they then used for Baal. 1

10Then I will strip her naked in the sight of her lovers, 1 and no one will rescue her out of my hand. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 17:10For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have ignored the rock of your strength. 1 So you plant pleasant plants, and set out vine branches received from a stranger, 1

Ezekiel 16:39I will give you into their hands so they will throw down your vaulted chamber and break down your high places and they will strip you of your clothes and take all of your jewelry. They will leave you naked and bare.

Daniel 11:13Then the king of the North will raise up another army, greater than the first. After some years, the king of the North will surely come with a great army supplied with much equipment.

Hosea 8:7For the people sow the wind 1 and reap the whirlwind. 1 The standing grain has no heads; 1 it yields no flour. 1 If it does come to maturity, 1 foreigners will devour it. 1

Joel 2:14Who knows? Will he perhaps turn and have compassion, 1 and leave a blessing behind him, 1 a grain offering and a drink offering for Yahweh your God? 1

Haggai 1:6You have sown much seed, but bring in little harvest; you eat but do not have enough; 1 you drink but cannot get drunk. You wear clothes but cannot warm yourselves, 1 and the wage earner earns money only to put it into a bag full of holes! 1

Matthew Henry on Hosea 2:7-14

Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 764.) 6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. 7 And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now. 8 For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal. 9 Therefore… Read the whole commentary →

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