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Hosea 2:3

Faithfulness and loyalty

1 “Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’

2 Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.

Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.

4 I will have no compassion on her children, because they are the children of adultery.

5 For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.
KJV
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.
WEB
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.
ASV
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.
DARBY
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 as a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
BLB
lest I strip her naked, and expose her like the day of her being born, and make her like the desert, and set her like a parched land, and kill her with thirst!
ÅB
for at jeg ikke skal kle henne naken og stille henne fram som hun var den dag hun ble født, og gjøre henne lik en ørken, et tørt land, og la henne dø av tørst!
OTB
Ellers vil jeg kle henne naken og utsette henne som på den dagen hun ble født. Jeg vil gjøre henne som en ørken, forvandle henne til et uttørket land, og drepe henne med tørst.
B1930
forat jeg ikke skal klæ henne naken og stille henne frem som hun var den dag hun blev født, og gjøre henne lik en ørken, et tørt land, og la henne dø av tørst!

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Cross references

  • Ezekiel 16:22

    And in all your abominations and acts of prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your own blood.

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  • Isaiah 32:13–14

    and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers— even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.

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  • Amos 8:11–13

    Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.

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  • Ezekiel 19:13

    Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.

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  • Jeremiah 13:22

    And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.

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  • Jeremiah 22:6

    For this is what the LORD says concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You are like Gilead to Me, like the summit of Lebanon; but I will surely turn you into a desert, like cities that are uninhabited.

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  • Exodus 17:3

    But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”

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  • Jeremiah 4:26

    I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert. All its cities were torn down before the LORD, before His fierce anger.

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