Hosea 2:3

Hosea 2:3 in other versions

• King James Version (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.
• New International Version (NIV)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.
• English Standard Version (ESV)lest I strip her naked and make her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and make her like a parched land, and kill her with thirst.
• New King James Version (NKJV)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.

Context of Hosea 2:3

1Say to your brothers, “Ammi,” and to your sisters, “Ruhamah.” 2“Dispute with your mother, dispute, Because she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; But she must remove her infidelity from her face And her adultery from between her breasts, Otherwise, I will strip her naked And expose her as on the day she was born. I will also make her like a wilderness, Make her like desert land, And put her to death with thirst. 4Also, I will take no pity on her children, Because they are children of infidelity. 5For their mother has committed prostitution; She who conceived them has 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 2:3 word by word

פֶּן־אַפְשִׁיטֶ֣נָּה עֲרֻמָּ֔ה וְהִ֨צַּגְתִּ֔יהָ כְּי֖וֹם הִוָּֽלְדָ֑הּ וְשַׂמְתִּ֣יהָ כַמִּדְבָּ֗ר וְשַׁתִּ֙הָ֙ כְּאֶ֣רֶץ צִיָּ֔ה וַהֲמִתִּ֖יהָ בַּצָּמָֽא׃Read the interlinear

• Otherwiseפֶּן־pên · lestH6435
• I will stripפָּשַׁטpâshaţ · to stripH6584
• nakedעָרוֹם‛ârôm ‛ârôm · nakedH6174
• And exposeיָצַגyâtsag · to setH3322
• dayיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• she was bornיָלַדyâlad · to begetH3205
• makeשׂוּםώûm ώîym · to set: makeH7760
• her like a wildernessמִדְבָּרmidbâr · wildernessH4057
• Makeשִׁיתshîyth · to set: makeH7896
• her like desertצִיָּהtsîyâh · drynessH6723
• landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• And putמוּתmûth · to dieH4191
• thirstצָמָאtsâmâ' · thirstH6772

Cross-references for Hosea 2:3

• Hosea 2:10So now I will uncover her lewdness Before the eyes of her lovers, And no one will rescue her from My hand.
• Isaiah 47:3Your nakedness will be uncovered, Your shame will also be exposed; I will take vengeance and will not spare anyone.”
• Jeremiah 13:22If you say in your heart, ‘Why have these things happened to me?’ Because of the magnitude of your wrongdoing Your skirts have been removed And your heels have suffered violence.
• Ezekiel 16:37therefore, behold, I am going to gather all your lovers whom you pleased, all those whom you loved as well as all those whom you hated. So I will gather them against you from every direction and expose your nakedness to them so that they may see all your nakedness.
• Ezekiel 23:26They will also strip you of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewelry.
• Revelation 17:16And the ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute and will make her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and will burn her up with fire.
• Ezekiel 16:4As for your birth, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing; you were not rubbed with salt or even wrapped in cloths.
• Isaiah 32:13For the land of my people in which thorns and briars will come up; Indeed, for all the joyful houses and for the jubilant city.
• Isaiah 33:9The land mourns and wastes away, Lebanon is shamed and withers; Sharon is like a desert plain, And Bashan and Carmel lose their foliage.
• Isaiah 64:10Your holy cities have become a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
• Jeremiah 2:31You generation, look to the word of the Lord. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, Or a land of thick darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam; We will no longer come to You’?
• Jeremiah 4:26I looked, and behold, the fruitful land was a wilderness, And all its cities were pulled down Before the Lord, before His fierce anger.
• Jeremiah 12:10Many shepherds have ruined My vineyard, They have trampled down My field; They have made My pleasant field A desolate wilderness.
• Jeremiah 22:6For 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; Yet most assuredly I will make you a wilderness, Cities that are not inhabited.
• Ezekiel 19:13And now it is planted in the wilderness, In a dry and thirsty land.
• Ezekiel 20:35and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.

Commentaries on Hosea 2:3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3Lest I strip her naked - Lest I expose her to infamy, want, and punishment. The punishment of an adulteress among the ancient Germans was this: "They shaved off her hair, stripped her naked in the presence of her relatives, and in this state drove her from the house of her husband." See on Isaiah 3:17; (note); and see also Ezekiel 16:39; Ezekiel 23:26. However reproachful this might be to such delinquents, it had no tendency to promote their moral…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3The Lord warns unfaithful Israel that unless she repents and returns to her covenant partner, he will expose her nakedness (see also Hosea 2:10). Ezekiel also uses this image of judgment and shame (Ezekiel 16:36–37).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. set her as in the day ... born--(Eze 16:4; 23:25, 26, 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--(Jr 6:8; Zep 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 Jr 2:6).Read the comment

Topics related to Hosea 2:3

• Idolatry
• Israel, Prophecies Concerning

In the dictionaries

• Fornication
• Hedge
• Thorn
• Ammi
• Hosea
• Naked; Nakedness
• Song of Songs
• Zechariah, Book of

Commentaries on Hosea 2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings