Hosea 2:3
Lest I strip her naked,and make her bare as in the day that she was born,and make her like a wilderness,and set her like a dry land,and kill her with thirst.
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4Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy;for they are children of unfaithfulness;
Cross References
Judges 15:18He was very thirsty, and called on the Lord, and said, "You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?"
Isaiah 33:9The land mourns and languishes.Lebanon is confounded and withers away.Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.
Isaiah 64:10Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Jeremiah 2:31Generation, consider the word of the Lord. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, 'We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?'
Jeremiah 12:10Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
Jeremiah 13:26Therefore will I also uncover your skirts on your face, and your shame shall appear.
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 →