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Hosea 2:5 KJV
Hosea · chapter 2 · verse 5
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.Hosea 2:5 · King James Version
Hosea 2:5 in context
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.
6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
7And 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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- shamefullyyâbêshto be ashamed, confused or disappointedH3001 →
- conceivedhârâhto be pregnant, conceiveH2029 →
- motherʼêma motherH517 →
- harlotzânâhto commit adulteryH2181 →
- loversʼâhabto have affection forH157 →
- afterʼacharproperly, the hind partH310 →
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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