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I will turn her vineyards and orchards into a wilderness; wild animals will destroy them. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/hosea/2-12.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/hosea/2-12.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/hosea/2-12.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/hosea/1.htm">Hosea</a> > <a href="/gntd/hosea/2.htm">Chapter 2</a> > Verse 12</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../hosea/2-11.htm" title="Hosea 2:11">◄</a> Hosea 2:12 <a href="../hosea/2-13.htm" title="Hosea 2:13">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/hosea/2.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/hosea/2.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />I will destroy her grapevines and her fig trees, which she said her lovers gave her for serving them. I will turn her vineyards and orchards into a wilderness; wild animals will destroy them. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/hosea/2.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, “These are my pay, which my lovers have given me.” I will make them a forest, and the wild animals shall devour them.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/hosea/2.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />She said, "My lovers gave me vineyards and fig trees as payment for sex." Now I, the LORD, will ruin her vineyards and fig trees; they will become clumps of weeds eaten by wild animals. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/hosea/2.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />I will lay waste her vines and fig trees, of which she said, “These are the fees my lovers have given me”; I will turn them into rank growth and wild animals shall devour them. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/hosea/2.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And I will destroy her vines, and her fig trees, of which she said: These are my rewards, which my lovers have given me: and I will make her as a forest and the beasts of the field shall devour her.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And I will destroy her vines, and her fig trees, of which she said: These are my rewards, which my lovers have given me: and I will make her as a forest and the beasts of the field shall devour her.</p><p class="hdg">destroy.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hosea/2-5.htm">Hosea 2:5</a> For their mother hath committed fornication, she that conceived them is covered with shame: 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.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hosea/9-1.htm">Hosea 9:1</a> Rejoice not, O Israel: rejoice not as the nations do: for thou hast committed fornication against thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.</p><p class="hdg">I will.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/80-12.htm">Psalm 80:12</a> Why hast thou broken down the hedge thereof, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck it?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/5-5.htm">Isaiah 5:5</a> And now I will shew you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be wasted: I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/7-23.htm">Isaiah 7:23</a> And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place where there were a thousand vines, at a thousand pieces of silver, shall become thorns and briers.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/29-17.htm">Isaiah 29:17</a> Is it not yet a very little while, and Libanus shall be turned into charmel, and charmel shall be esteemed as a forest?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/32-13.htm">Isaiah 32:13-15</a> Upon the land of my people shall thorns and briers come up: how much more upon all the houses of joy, of the city that rejoiced? . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/26-18.htm">Jeremiah 26:18</a> Micheas of Morasthi was a prophet in the days of Ezechias king of Juda, and he spoke to all the people of Juda, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Sion shall be ploughed like a field, and Jerusalem shall be a heap of stones: and the mountain of the house the high places of woods.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../micah/3-12.htm">Micah 3:12</a> Her princes have judged for bribes: and her priests have taught for hire, and her prophets divined for money: and they leaned upon the Lord, saying: Is not the Lord in the midst of us? no evil shall come among us.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/hosea/2.htm">Israel's Adultery Rebuked</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">11</span>And I will cause all her mirth to cease, her solemnities, her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her festival times. <span class="reftext">12</span><span class="highl">And I will destroy her vines, and her fig trees, of which she said: These are my rewards, which my lovers have given me: and I will make her as a forest and the beasts of the field shall devour her.</span><span class="reftext">13</span>And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, to whom she burnt incense, and decked herself out with her earrings, and with her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith the Lord.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/5-5.htm">Isaiah 5:5</a></span><br />And now I will shew you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be wasted: I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/7-23.htm">Isaiah 7:23</a></span><br />And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place where there were a thousand vines, at a thousand pieces of silver, shall become thorns and briers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/5-17.htm">Jeremiah 5:17</a></span><br />And they shall eat up thy corn, and thy bread: they shall devour thy sons, and thy daughters: they shall eat up thy flocks, and thy herds: they shall eat thy vineyards, and thy figs: and with the sword they shall destroy thy strong cities, wherein thou trustest.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/8-13.htm">Jeremiah 8:13</a></span><br />Gathering I will gather them together, saith the Lord, there is no grape on the vines, and there are no figs on the fig tree, the leaf is fallen: and I have given them the things that are passed away.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hosea/2-5.htm">Hosea 2:5</a></span><br />For their mother hath committed fornication, she that conceived them is covered with shame: 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hosea/13-8.htm">Hosea 13:8</a></span><br />I will meet them as a bear that is robbed of her whelps, and I will rend the inner parts of their liver: and I will devour them there as a lion, the beast of the field shall tear them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a 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