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Hosea 2:9-13

Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.

Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand.

I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.

I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest,’ and the animals of the field shall eat them.

I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me,” says Yahweh.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.

    Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand.

    I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.

    I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest,’ and the animals of the field shall eat them.

    I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me,” says Yahweh.

  • KJV King James Version

    Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.

    And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.

    I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.

    And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

    And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.

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  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    (2-11) Therefore will I take back My corn in the time thereof, and My wine in the season thereof, and will snatch away My wool and My flax given to cover her nakedness.

    (2-12) And now will I uncover her shame in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of My hand.

    (2-13) I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her appointed seasons.

    (2-14) And I will lay waste her vines and her fig-trees, whereof she hath said: 'These are my hire that my lovers have given me'; and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

    (2-15) And I will visit upon her the days of the Baalim, wherein she offered unto them, and decked herself with her ear-rings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot Me, saith the LORD.

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Cross-references (92)

  • Isaiah 1:13-14 (v11) Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can’t stand evil assemblies. My…
  • Amos 5:21 (v11) I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies.
  • Judges 3:7 (v13) The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and forgot Yahweh their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth.
  • Hosea 13:6 (v13) According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.
  • Amos 8:5 (v11) Saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the…
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  • Jeremiah 7:34 (v11) Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the…
  • Jeremiah 16:9 (v11) For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the…
  • Hosea 11:2 (v13) They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to engraved images.
  • Hosea 13:1 (v13) When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, but when he became guilty in Baal, he died.
  • Isaiah 5:5 (v12) Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall, and it…
  • Isaiah 7:23 (v12) It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns.
  • Jeremiah 7:9 (v13) Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,
  • Hosea 2:3 (vv9–10) Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and…
  • Hosea 2:5 (vv12–13) For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give…
  • Isaiah 17:10-11 (v9) For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants,…
  • Ezekiel 23:26 (v9) They will also strip you of your clothes, and take away your beautiful jewels.
  • Ezekiel 23:29 (v10) They will deal with you in hatred, and will take away all your labor, and will leave you naked and bare. The nakedness of your prostitution…
  • Hosea 4:6 (v13) My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to…
  • Hosea 8:14 (v13) For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and…
  • Hosea 9:7 (v13) The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is…
  • Hosea 9:9-10 (v13) They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins. I…
  • Hosea 13:8 (v12) I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart. There I will devour them like a…
  • Haggai 1:6-11 (v9) You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe…
  • Malachi 1:4 (v9) Whereas Edom says, “We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;” Yahweh of Armies says, “They shall build, but I…
  • Malachi 3:18 (v9) Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.
  • Luke 12:2-3 (v10) But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known. Therefore whatever you have said in the…
  • Revelation 18:22-23 (v11) The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, of whatever craft, will…
  • Exodus 32:34 (v13) Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I…
  • Deuteronomy 6:12 (v13) then beware lest you forget Yahweh, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
  • Deuteronomy 8:11-14 (v13) Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you today; lest,…
  • Deuteronomy 32:18 (v13) Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.
  • Judges 2:11-13 (v13) The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and served the Baals. They abandoned Yahweh, the God of their fathers,…
  • Judges 10:6 (v13) The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and served the Baals, the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of…
  • 1 Samuel 12:9 (v13) “But they forgot Yahweh their God; and he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the…
  • 1 Kings 12:32 (v11) Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the…
  • 1 Kings 16:31-32 (v13) As if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal…
  • 1 Kings 18:18-40 (v13) He answered, “I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken Yahweh’s commandments, and you have…
  • 2 Kings 1:2 (v13) Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and said to them, “Go,…
  • 2 Kings 10:28 (v13) Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
  • 2 Kings 21:3 (v13) For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he raised up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as Ahab…
  • Job 8:13 (v13) So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,
  • Psalms 50:22 (v10) “Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
  • Psalms 78:11 (v13) They forgot his doings, his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.
  • Psalms 80:12 (v12) Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?
  • Psalms 106:13 (v13) They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,
  • Psalms 106:21 (v13) They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,
  • Proverbs 11:21 (v10) Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.
  • Isaiah 3:17 (v10) therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion, and Yahweh will make their scalps bald.”
  • Isaiah 3:18-26 (v9) In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, the headbands, the crescent necklaces, the earrings, the bracelets, the…
  • Isaiah 17:10 (v13) For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants,…
  • Isaiah 24:7-11 (v11) The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh. The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends.…
  • Isaiah 29:17 (v12) Isn’t it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest?
  • Isaiah 32:13-15 (v12) Thorns and briers will come up on my people’s land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city. For the palace will be forsaken. The…
  • Jeremiah 2:23-25 (v13) “How can you say, ‘I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals’? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift…
  • Jeremiah 2:32 (v13) “Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.
  • Jeremiah 8:13 (v12) “ ‘I will utterly consume them, says Yahweh. No grapes will be on the vine, no figs on the fig tree, and the leaf will fade. The things…
  • Jeremiah 11:13 (v13) For according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have you set up…
  • Jeremiah 13:22 (v10) If you say in your heart, “Why have these things come on me?” Your skirts are uncovered because of the greatness of your iniquity, and your…
  • Jeremiah 13:26 (v10) Therefore I will also uncover your skirts on your face, and your shame will appear.
  • Jeremiah 18:15 (v13) For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient…
  • Jeremiah 23:2 (v13) Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says against the shepherds who feed my people: “You have scattered my flock, driven them away, and…
  • Jeremiah 25:10 (v11) Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the…
  • Jeremiah 26:18 (v12) “Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies…
  • Ezekiel 16:17 (v13) You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and played the…
  • Ezekiel 16:27 (v9) See therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your portion, and delivered you to the will of those who hate…
  • Ezekiel 16:36-37 (v10) ‘The Lord Yahweh says, “Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with your lovers;…
  • Ezekiel 16:39 (v9) I will also give you into their hand, and they will throw down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places. They will strip you of…
  • Ezekiel 22:12 (v13) In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by…
  • Ezekiel 23:35 (v13) “Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore you also bear your lewdness and…
  • Ezekiel 23:40-42 (v13) “Furthermore you sisters have sent for men who come from far away, to whom a messenger was sent, and behold, they came; for whom you washed…
  • Ezekiel 26:13 (v11) I will cause the noise of your songs to cease. The sound of your harps won’t be heard any more.
  • Daniel 11:13 (v9) The king of the north will return, and will send out a multitude greater than the former. He will come on at the end of the times, even of…
  • Hosea 2:7 (v13) She will follow after her lovers, but she won’t overtake them; and she will seek them, but won’t find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go…
  • Hosea 3:4 (v11) For the children of Israel shall live many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and…
  • Hosea 4:13 (v13) They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because its shade is…
  • Hosea 5:13-14 (v10) “When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you,…
  • Hosea 8:7 (v9) For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield,…
  • Hosea 9:1 (v12) Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every…
  • Hosea 9:1-5 (v11) Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every…
  • Hosea 9:2 (v9) The threshing floor and the wine press won’t feed them, and the new wine will fail her.
  • Hosea 13:7-8 (v10) Therefore I am like a lion to them. Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path. I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and…
  • Joel 2:14 (v9) Who knows? He may turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh, your God.
  • Amos 8:3 (v11) The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh. “The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw…
  • Amos 8:9-10 (v11) It will happen in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear…
  • Micah 3:12 (v12) Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like…
  • Micah 5:8 (v10) The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, among many peoples, like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among…
  • Nahum 1:10 (v11) For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
  • Zephaniah 1:13 (v9) Their wealth will become a plunder, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won’t inhabit them. They will plant…
  • Haggai 2:16-17 (v9) Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty,…
  • 1 Corinthians 4:5 (v10) Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the…

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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain On vv9–13 It now follows Therefore will I return, and take…

It now follows Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in its time, and my new wine in its stated time. Here, again, the Prophet shows that God was, by extreme necessity, constrained to take vengeance on an ungodly and irreclaimable people. He makes known how great was the hardness of the people, and then adds, “What now remains, but to deprive those who have been so ungrateful to me of all their blessings?” It is, indeed, more than base for men to enjoy the gifts of God and to despise the giver; yea, to exalt his creatures to his place, and to reduce, as it were, all his authority to nothing. This the superstitious indeed do, for they thrust God from his pre-eminence, and insult his glory. Will God, in the meantime, so throw away his blessings as to suffer them to be profaned by the ungodly, and himself to be thus mocked with impunity? We now then see the object of the Prophet; for God here shows that there was no other remedy, but to deprive the Israelites of all their gifts: he had indeed enriched them, but they had abused all their abundance. It was therefore necessary to reduce them to extreme want, that they might no longer pollute God’s gifts which ought to be held sacred by us.

And he uses a very suitable word; for נצל natsal means properly, to pluck away, to set free. I will by force take away, he says, my wool and my flax. It seems, indeed, to denote an unjust possession, as when one takes away by force from the hand of a robber what he unjustly possesses, or as when any one rescues wretched men from the power of a tyrant. So God now speaks, ‘I will pluck away my gifts from these men who basely and unjustly pollute them.’

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And he adds, to cover her nakedness ערוה, orue, properly, though not simply, means nakedness: it is the nakedness of the uncomely parts. Moses calls any indecorous part of the body ערוה, orue, and so it means what is uncomely. This word we ought carefully to notice; for God here shows, that except he denudes idolaters, they will ever continue obstinate. How so? Because they use coverings for their baseness. While the ungodly enjoy their triumphs in the world, they regard them as veils drawn over them, so that nothing base or disgraceful can be seen in them. The same is the case with great kings and monarchs; they think that the eyes of all are dazzled by their splendour; and hence it is, that they are so audaciously dissolute. They think their own filth to be fine odour: such is the arrogance of the world. It is even so with the superstitious; when God is indulgent to them, they think that they have coverings. When, therefore, they abandon themselves to any kind of wickedness, they regard it as if it were a holy thing. How so? Because, whatever obscene thing is in them, it is covered by prosperity. When God observes such madness as this in men, can he do otherwise than pluck away his blessings, that such a pollution may not continually prevail? For it is an abuse extremely gross, that when God’s blessings are so many images of his glory, and when his paternal goodness shines forth even towards the ungodly, the world should convert them to a purpose wholly contrary, and make them as coverings for themselves, that they may conceal their own baseness, and more freely sin and carry on war against God himself. Hence he says, “That they may no longer cover their baseness, I will pluck away whatever I have bestowed on them.”

When he says, I will take away the corn and wine in its time, and in its stated time, he alludes, I have no doubt, to the time of harvest and vintage; as though he said, “The harvest will come, the vintage will come: there has been hitherto great fruitfulness; but I will show that the earth and all its fruits are subject to my will. Though, then, the Israelites are now full, and have their storehouses well furnished, they shall know that I rule over the harvest and the vintage, when the stated time shall come.” Now, the Spirit of God denounced this punishment early, that the Israelites, if reclaimable, might return to a right course. But as their blindness was so great that they despised all that had been said to them, no excuse remained for them. It now follows —

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv9, 10, 13 Signifying, that God will take away his benefits when…
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv9–13 Hos 2:9 Therefore will I return, and take away…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv9–13 Therefore, because I was not acknowledged nor served as…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv9–13 And now will I discover her lewdness in the…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv9–13 Take away - I will resume all I gave.…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv9–13 Verse 9. Therefore will I return, and take away]…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv10, 12 Hos 2:10-11. And now will I discover her lewdness,…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv9–13 Therefore I will return - God is, as it…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv9, 10, 11, 13 Season. When the harvest is ripe, the loss is…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv9–13 my corn . . . my wool . .…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv10, 11, 13 10. By withholding the crops at the time when…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv9–13 9. And now in order radically to cure the…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv9, 11, 12, 13 (9) Therefore will I return, and take . .…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv9–13 Therefore will I return, and take away my corn…
The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain On vv9–12 Therefore will I return.
The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary 1892 · Public Domain On vv10–12 Hos_2:10. Discover her lewdness] Lit. uncover her shame. Sin…
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv10, 12 General Information:
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv9, 11, 13 2:9-13 God’s first judgment (2:6-7) was to restrict the…
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