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 ye to your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah. 2Contend with your mother, contend: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her harlotry out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; 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 kill her with thirst. 4And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are the children of harlotry. 5For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that 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

• stripפָּשַׁטpâshaţ · to stripH6584
• nakedעָרוֹם‛ârôm ‛ârôm · nakedH6174
• setיָצַגyâtsag · to setH3322
• dayיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• bornיָלַדyâlad · to begetH3205
• makeשׂוּםώûm ώîym · to set: makeH7760
• wildernessמִדְבָּרmidbâr · wildernessH4057
• setשִׁיתshîyth · to set: makeH7896
• dryצִיָּהtsîyâh · drynessH6723
• landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• killמוּתmûth · to dieH4191
• thirstצָמָאtsâmâ' · thirstH6772

Cross-references for Hosea 2:3

• Hosea 2:10And now will I uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.
• Isaiah 47:3Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.
• Jeremiah 13:22And if thou shalt say in thy heart, Why come these things upon me? For the greatness of thy iniquity are thy skirts uncovered, and thy heels made bare.
• Ezekiel 16:37Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them on every side against thee, and will uncover thy nakedness to them, that they may see all thy nakedness.
• Ezekiel 23:26They shall also strip thee of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.
• Revelation 17:16And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the harlot, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
• Ezekiel 16:4And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to cleanse thee ; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
• Isaiah 32:13Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; also, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
• Isaiah 33:9The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits .
• Isaiah 64:10Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
• Jeremiah 2:31O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? a land of darkness? why say my people, We are lords; we will come no more to thee?
• Jeremiah 4:26I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
• Jeremiah 12:10Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
• Jeremiah 22:6For thus saith the LORD to the king’s house of Judah; Thou art Gilead to me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.
• Ezekiel 19:13And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
• Ezekiel 20:35And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I 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