Hosea 2:3

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.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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set her as in the day . . . born— (Ezekiel 16:4; Ezekiel 23:25-26, Ezekiel 23:28-29). The day of her political "birth" was when God delivered her from the bondage of Egypt, and set up the theocracy.

make her as a wilderness— (Jeremiah 6:8; Zephaniah 2:13). Translate, "make her as the wilderness," namely, that in which she passed forty years on her way to her goodly possession of Canaan. With this agrees the mention of "thirst" (compare Jeremiah 2:6).

**Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Hosea 2:3:**

Psalms 75:2-3
Isaiah 54:4
Ezekiel 16:4
Ezekiel 16:7
Ezekiel 16:39

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