Thematic Bible
Hosea 2:1 (show verse)
Say to your brothers: 'My people.' Say to your sisters: 'You have been shown loving kindness.'
Hosea 2:2 (show verse)
Plead with your mother (your nation), for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband. Let her put away her acts of adultery from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts!
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Hosea 2:3 (show verse)
I will strip her naked and make her as in the day that she was born. I will make her as a wilderness, and make her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.
Hosea 2:4 (show verse)
I will show no mercy to her children for they are children of fornication.
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Hosea 2:5 (show verse)
Their mother played the harlot. She that conceived them acted shamefully! For she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.
Hosea 2:6 (show verse)
Behold, I (Jehovah) will fence her way with thorns. I will build a wall against her that she will not find her path.
Hosea 2:7 (show verse)
She will follow after her lovers but she will not reach them. She will seek them, but will not find them! She will say: 'I will return to my first husband for it was better for me then.'
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Hosea 2:8 (show verse)
She did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
Agriculture » God to be acknowledged in
Agriculture or husbandry » The providence of God to be acknowledged in the produce of
Famine » Caused by » God's blessing withheld
Ingratitude to God » Punishment of
Oil » Used » In idolatrous worship
The Providence of God » Danger of denying
earthly Riches » The gift of God
earthly Treasures » Disappointing » Men entrusted with, by God
Agriculture or husbandry » The providence of God to be acknowledged in the produce of
Famine » Caused by » God's blessing withheld
Ingratitude to God » Punishment of
Oil » Used » In idolatrous worship
The Providence of God » Danger of denying
earthly Riches » The gift of God
earthly Treasures » Disappointing » Men entrusted with, by God
Hosea 2:9 (show verse)
Therefore I will take back my grain at that time, and my new wine in the season. I will pluck away my wool and my flax that should have covered her nakedness.
Hosea 2:10 (show verse)
Now I will uncover her lewdness (obscene behavior) in the sight of her lovers, and none will deliver her out of my hands.
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Hosea 2:11 (show verse)
I will also cause all her exaltation to cease, her feasts, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
Feast of the new moon » The jews deprived of, for sin
Israel » Under the special protection of jehovah humbled » Joy of, departed
Israel » A type of the apostate church when disobedient » Lost the joy of divine favour
Joy » Christ's joy » Israel lost the joy of divine favour
New » Man » Moons
The sabbath » The wicked » May be judicially deprived of
Israel » Under the special protection of jehovah humbled » Joy of, departed
Israel » A type of the apostate church when disobedient » Lost the joy of divine favour
Joy » Christ's joy » Israel lost the joy of divine favour
New » Man » Moons
The sabbath » The wicked » May be judicially deprived of
Hosea 2:12 (show verse)
I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees. Of this she said: These are my loose woman's hire that my lovers have given me. I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field will eat them.
Hosea 2:13 (show verse)
I will punish her for the days in which she burned incense to the Baals, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, said Jehovah.
Hosea 2:14 (show verse)
Therefore, behold, I will entice her into the wilderness, and speak kindly to her.
Hosea 2:15 (show verse)
I will give her vineyards from there and the valley of Achor for a door of hope. She will sing there as in the days of her youth and in the day when she came up out of Egypt.
Hosea 2:16 (show verse)
It will be at that day, said Jehovah; you will call me 'husband' (Ishi). You will no longer call me my 'master' (ba'ali).
Hosea 2:17 (show verse)
For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no more be mentioned by their name.
Hosea 2:18 (show verse)
At that time I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the land, and will make them lie down in safety.
the Bow » Illustrative » (when broken,) of the overthrow of power
Covenants » Illustrative » (with stones and beasts of the earth,) of peace and prosperity
Israel » Hoshea » Prophecies concerning » Of restoration
Nation » Foretold by the prophets
Peace » Social » Foretold by the prophets
Peace » The church shall enjoy
Universal » Opportunity » Peace, foretold by the prophets
War » To cease, an era of peace prophesied
Covenants » Illustrative » (with stones and beasts of the earth,) of peace and prosperity
Israel » Hoshea » Prophecies concerning » Of restoration
Nation » Foretold by the prophets
Peace » Social » Foretold by the prophets
Peace » The church shall enjoy
Universal » Opportunity » Peace, foretold by the prophets
War » To cease, an era of peace prophesied
Hosea 2:19 (show verse)
I will engage you to me for a very long time! Yes I will engage you to me in righteousness, and in justice, and in loving kindness, and in mercies.
Hosea 2:20 (show verse)
I will even engage you to me in faithfulness. Then you will know Jehovah.
Hosea 2:21 (show verse)
It will happen in that day. I will answer, said Jehovah, I will answer the heavens, and they will answer the earth!
Hosea 2:22 (show verse)
The earth will answer the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; and they will answer Jezreel.
Hosea 2:23 (show verse)
And I will sow her to me in the earth! I will have mercy (compassion) on her who had not obtained mercy. I will say to those who were not my people: 'You are my people!' They will answer: 'You are my God!'