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Hosea 2:3 KJV
Hosea · chapter 2 · verse 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.Hosea 2:3 · King James Version
Hosea 2:3 in context
1Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
2Plead 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;
3Lest 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.
4And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.
5For 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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- wildernessmidbâra pastureH4057 →
- strippâshaṭto spread outH6584 →
- nakedʻârôwmnude, either partially or totallyH6174 →
- bornyâladto bear youngH3205 →
- makesûwmto putH7760 →
- landʼeretsthe earthH776 →
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The first words of this chapter some make the close of the foregoing chapter, and add them to the promises which we have here of the great things God would do for them.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-5