Hosea 2:8
6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.
7 She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will return to my first husband, for then I was better off than now.’
For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, who lavished on her silver and gold— which they crafted for Baal.
9 Therefore I will take back My grain in its time and My new wine in its season; I will take away My wool and linen, which were given to cover her nakedness.
10 And then I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of My hands.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, who lavished on her silver and gold— which they crafted for Baal.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
- ASV
- For she did not know that I gave her the grain, and the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied unto her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
- DARBY
- And she did not know that I had given her the corn and the new wine and the oil, and had multiplied to her the silver and gold, which they employed for Baal.
- BLB
- And she did not know that I gave to her the grain, and the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied for her silver and gold, [which] they prepared for Baal.
- ÅB
- Hun skjønte ikke at det var jeg som gav henne kornet og mosten og oljen, og som gav henne sølv og gull i mengdevis, som de brukte til Ba'al.
- OTB
- Hun har ikke erkjent at det var jeg som ga henne kornet, den nye vinen og oljen, og overøste henne med sølv og gull, som de brukte til Baal.
- B1930
- Hun skjønte ikke at det var jeg som gav henne kornet og mosten og oljen, og som gav henne sølv og gull i mengdevis, som de brukte til Ba'al.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 1:3
The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”
Read in contextHosea 8:4
They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction.
Read in contextRomans 1:28
Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
Read in contextHosea 4:11
Promiscuity, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
Read in contextEzekiel 16:16–19
You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and on them you prostituted yourself. Such things should not have happened; never should they have occurred!
Read in contextHosea 13:2
Now they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say of them, “They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves!”
Read in contextLuke 16:1–2
Jesus also said to His disciples, “There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions.
Read in contextDaniel 5:3–4
Thus they brought in the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king drank from them, along with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines.
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