Hosea 2:3 - Forerunner Commentary

Hosea 2:3

1 Say to your brethren,¹ ‘My people,’
And to your sisters,¹ ‘Mercy is shown.’

God’s Unfaithful People

2 “Bring¹ charges against your mother,² bring charges;
For ^ashe is not My wife, nor am I her Husband!
Let her put away her ^bharlotries from her sight,
And her adulteries from between her breasts;

3 Lest ^aI strip her naked
And expose her, as in the day she was ^bborn,
And make her like a wilderness,
And set her like a dry land,
And slay her with ^cthirst.

4 “I will not have mercy on her children,
For they are the ^achildren of harlotry.

5 For their mother has played the harlot;
She who conceived them has behaved shamefully.
For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
^aWho give me my bread and my water,
My wool and my linen,
My oil and my drink.’

6 “Therefore, behold,
^aI will hedge up your way with thorns,
And¹ wall her in,
So that she cannot find her paths.

Verse Comparison: Hosea 2:3

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American Standard Version
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.

Amplified® Bible
Lest I strip her naked and make her as in the day she was born, and make her as a wilderness and set her like a parched land and slay her with thirst.

Contemporary English Version
or I will strip her naked like the day she was born. I will make her barren like a desert, and she will die of thirst.

Darby English Version
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.

Good News Bible
If she does not, I will strip her as naked as she was on the day she was born. I will make her like a dry and barren land, and she will die of thirst.

King James Version
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.

New American Standard Bible
Or I will strip her naked And expose her as on the day when she was born. I will also make her like a wilderness, Make her like desert land And slay her with thirst.

New International Version
Otherwise I will strip her naked
and make her as bare as on the day she was born;
I will make her like a desert,
turn her into a parched land,
and slay her with thirst.

New King James Version
Lest I strip her naked
And expose her, as in the day she was born,
And make her like a wilderness,
And set her like a dry land,
And slay her with thirst.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
Or I will strip her naked And expose her as on the day when she came into the world I will also make her like a wilderness, Make her like desert and And slay her with thirst.

Revised Standard Version
lest I strip her naked and make her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a parched land, and slay her with thirst.

Young's Literal Translation
Lest I strip her naked. And have set her up as `in' the day of her birth, And have made her as a wilderness, And have set her as a dry land, And have put her to death with thirst.

New English Translation
Otherwise, I will strip her naked, and expose her like she was when she was born. I will turn her land into a wilderness and make her country a parched land, so that I might kill¹ her with thirst.

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