Hosea 2:5

Hosea 2:5 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For 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, mine oil and my drink.
• New International Version (NIV)Their mother has been unfaithful and has conceived them in disgrace. She said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my food and my water, my wool and my linen, my olive oil and my drink.’
• English Standard Version (ESV)For their mother has played the whore; 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.'
• New King James Version (NKJV)For their mother has played the harlot; She who conceived them has behaved shamefully. For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, Who give me my bread and my water, My wool and my linen, My oil and my drink.’

Context of Hosea 2:5

3Say you to your brothers, ‘Ammi’ and to your sisters, ‘Ruhamah’. 4Contend with your mother, contend! For she is not My wife nor I her husband. Let her put away her fornications from her face and her adulteries from between her breasts. Or else I will strip her naked and expose her as on the day she was born. Then I will make her like a wilderness. Yes, I will make her like desert land, and I will let her die of thirst. 6I will have no compassion for her children, for they are children of prostitution. 7For their mother has practiced prostitution. She who conceived them has been shameful. For she said, ‘Let me go after my lovers, who are giving me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’

Hosea 2:5 word by word

כִּ֤י זָֽנְתָה֙ אִמָּ֔ם הֹבִ֖ישָׁה הֽוֹרָתָ֑ם כִּ֣י אָמְרָ֗ה אֵלְכָ֞ה אַחֲרֵ֤י מְאַהֲבַי֙ נֹתְנֵ֤י לַחְמִי֙ וּמֵימַ֔י צַמְרִ֣י וּפִשְׁתִּ֔י שַׁמְנִ֖י וְשִׁקּוּיָֽי׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• For their motherאֵם'êm · motherH517
• hath played the harlotזָנָהzânâh · to fornicateH2181
• she that conceivedהָרָהhârâh · to conceiveH2029
• them hath done shamefullyיָבֵשׁyâbêsh · to witherH3001
• for she saidאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
• I will goיָלַךְyâlak · to walkH3212
• afterאַחַר'achar · afterH310
• my loversאָהֵב'âhab 'âhêb · to love: loverH157
• that giveנָתַןnâthan · to give: giveH5414
• my breadלֶ֫חֶםlechem · food: breadH3899
• and my waterמַיmayim · waterH4325
• my woolצֶ֫מֶרtsemer · woolH6785
• and my flaxפֵּ֫שֶׁתpishteh · flaxH6593
• mine oilשֶׁ֫מֶןshemen · oilH8081
• and my drinkשִׁקּוּיshiqqûy · drinkH8250

Cross-references for Hosea 2:5

• Hosea 2:2Then the descendants of Judah and descendants of Israel will be gathered together. They will appoint themselves one head And they will go up from the land. For the day of Jezreel will be great.
• Hosea 3:1Then Adonai said to me: “Go again! Love a woman who is loved by a companion and committing adultery—just as Adonai has loved the Bnei-Yisrael, while they were turning to other gods and loving raisin cakes.”
• Hosea 4:5So you will stumble by day. Also a prophet will stumble with you by night, when I destroy your mother.
• Isaiah 1:21How the Faithful City became a harlot! She once was full of justice, righteousness lodged in her— but now murderers!
• Isaiah 50:1Thus says Adonai: “Where is the divorce certificate, by which I sent your mother away? Or to whom of My creditors did I sell you? See, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
• Jeremiah 2:20“Indeed, long ago I broke your yoke and tore off your bonds. You said, ‘I will not serve!’ Instead, on every high hill and under every green tree you sprawled out as a prostitute.
• Jeremiah 3:1“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to be with another man, will he return to her again? Would not such a land be totally polluted? You are a prostitute with many lovers. Now are you returning to Me?” It is a declaration of Adonai.
• Ezekiel 16:15“But you trusted in your beauty and used your fame to become a harlot. You poured out your enticements on everyone who passed by—they were his.
• Ezekiel 16:28Then you also played the harlot with the Assyrians, never being satisfied; you played the harlot with them, and still you were not satisfied.
• Ezekiel 23:5“Oholah prostituted herself, though she was Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians, warriors,
• Revelation 2:20“But this I have against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess—yet she is teaching and deceiving My servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
• Revelation 17:1Then one of the seven angels holding the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come, I will show you the sentencing of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters.
• Hosea 9:10“Like grapes in the wilderness I found Israel. Like early fruit on a fig tree in its first season I saw your fathers. They came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to shame. So they became as detestable as the thing they loved.
• Ezra 9:6I prayed, “O my God, I am ashamed and humiliated to lift up my face to You, my God! For our iniquities are higher than our heads and our guilt has reached to the heavens.
• Jeremiah 2:26As a thief is shamed when caught, so the house of Israel is shamed— they, their kings, their princes, their kohanim and their prophets.
• Jeremiah 11:13For as numerous as your cities are your gods, O Judah, and as numerous as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to the shameful thing—altars to burn incense to Baal.

Commentaries on Hosea 2:5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5That give me my bread - See the note on Jeremiah 44:17-18; (note), where nearly the same words are found and illustrated.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5The only evidence needed to prove Israel’s unfaithfulness comes from her own words: I will go after my lovers. Israel’s lovers were the Canaanite fertility deities, especially the baals (local representations of the god Baal). The Israelites worshiped them because they believed these gods controlled nature's reproductive forces. The Israelites attributed to them the basic necessities of life: food, water, clothing of wool and linen, and oil used for both…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. I will go after--The Hebrew expresses a settled determination. lovers--the idols which Israel fancied to be the givers of all their goods, whereas God gave all these goods (Ho 2:8-13; compare Jr 44:17-19). bread and ... water--the necessaries of life in food. wool ... flax--clothing. oil ... drink--perfumed unguents and palatable drinks: the luxuries of Hebrew life.Read the comment

Topics related to Hosea 2:5

• Flax
• Idolatry
• Israel, Prophecies Concerning
• Oil

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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