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Everything comes from them--my food and drink, my linen and wool, my olive oil and wine." </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/hosea/2-5.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/2-5.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/2-5.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 5</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/2-4.htm" title="Hosea 2:4">◄</a> Hosea 2:5 <a href="../hosea/2-6.htm" title="Hosea 2:6">►</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="/nrsvce/hosea/2.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />For their mother has played the whore; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, “I will go after my lovers; they give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/hosea/2.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Your mother was unfaithful. She was disgraceful and said, "I'll run after my lovers. Everything comes from them--my food and drink, my linen and wool, my olive oil and wine." <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/hosea/2.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Yes, their mother has prostituted herself; 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.” <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/hosea/2.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</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.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">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="hdg">their mother.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hosea/2-2.htm">Hosea 2:2</a> Judge your mother, judge her: because she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her put away her fornications from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hosea/3-1.htm">Hosea 3:1</a> And the Lord said to me: Go yet again, and love a woman beloved of her friend, and an adulteress: as the Lord loveth the children of Israel, and they look to strange gods, and love the husks of the grapes.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hosea/4-5.htm">Hosea 4:5,12-15</a> And thou shalt fall today, and the prophet also shall fall with thee: in the night I have made thy mother to be silent. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/1-21.htm">Isaiah 1:21</a> How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment, become a harlot? justice dwelt in it, but now murderers.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/50-1.htm">Isaiah 50:1</a> Thus saith the Lord: What is this bill of the divorce of your mother, with which I have put her away? or who is my creditor, to whom I sold you: behold you are sold for your iniquities, and for your wicked deeds have I put your mother away.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/2-20.htm">Jeremiah 2:20,25</a> Of old time thou hast broken my yoke, thou hast burst my bands, and thou saidst: I will not serve. For on every high hill, and under every green tree thou didst prostitute thyself. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/3-1.htm">Jeremiah 3:1-9</a> It is commonly said: If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and marry another man, shall he return to her any more? shall not that woman be polluted, and defiled? but thou hast prostituted thyself to many lovers: nevertheless return to me, saith the Lord, and I will receive thee. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/16-15.htm">Ezekiel 16:15,16</a> But trusting in thy beauty, thou playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and thou hast prostituted thyself to every passenger, to be his. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/16-28.htm">Ezekiel 16:28-34</a> Thou hast also committed fornication with the Assyrians, because thou wast not yet satisfied: and after thou hadst played the harlot with them, even so thou wast not contented. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/23-5.htm">Ezekiel 23:5-11</a> And Oolla committed fornication against me, and doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians that came to her, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../revelation/2-20.htm">Revelation 2:20-23</a> But I have against thee a few things: because thou sufferest the woman Jezabel, who calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants, to commit fornication and to eat of things sacrificed to idols. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../revelation/17-1.htm">Revelation 17:1-5</a> And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven vials and spoke with me, saying: Come, I will shew thee the condemnation of the great harlot, who sitteth upon many waters: . . . </p><p class="hdg">hath done.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hosea/9-10.htm">Hosea 9:10</a> I found Israel like grapes in the desert, I saw their fathers like the firstfruits of the fig tree in the top thereof: but they went in to Beelphegor, and alienated themselves to that confusion, and became abominable, as those things were, which they loved.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezra/9-6.htm">Ezra 9:6,7</a> And said: My God I am confounded and ashamed to lift up my face to thee: for our iniquities are multiplied over our heads, and our sins are grown up even unto heaven, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/2-26.htm">Jeremiah 2:26,27</a> As the thief is confounded when he is taken, so is the house of Israel confounded, they and their kings, their princes and their priests, and their prophets. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/11-13.htm">Jeremiah 11:13</a> For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Juda: and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem thou hast set up altars of confusion, altars to offer sacrifice to Baalim.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../daniel/9-5.htm">Daniel 9:5-8</a> We have sinned, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly, and have revolted: and we have gone aside from thy commandments, and thy judgments. . . . </p><p class="hdg">I will.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hosea/2-13.htm">Hosea 2:13</a> 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.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hosea/8-9.htm">Hosea 8:9</a> For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath given gifts to his lovers.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/57-7.htm">Isaiah 57:7,8</a> Upon a high and lofty mountain thou hast laid thy bed, and hast gone up thither to offer victims. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/3-1.htm">Jeremiah 3:1-3</a> It is commonly said: If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and marry another man, shall he return to her any more? shall not that woman be polluted, and defiled? but thou hast prostituted thyself to many lovers: nevertheless return to me, saith the Lord, and I will receive thee. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/23-16.htm">Ezekiel 23:16,17,40-44</a> She doted upon them with the lust of her eyes, and she sent messengers to them into Chaldea. . . . </p><p class="hdg">give.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hosea/2-8.htm">Hosea 2:8,12</a> And she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver, and gold, which they have used in the service of Baal. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../judges/16-23.htm">Judges 16:23</a> And the princes of the Philistines assembled together, to offer great sacrifices to Dagon their god, and to make merry, saying: Our god hath delivered our enemy Samson into our hands.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/44-17.htm">Jeremiah 44:17,18</a> But we will certainly do every word that shall proceed out of our own mouth, to sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we and our fathers have done, our kings, and our princes in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and we were filled with bread, and it was well with us, and we saw no evil. . . . </p><p class="hdg">drink.</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">4</span>And I will not have mercy on her children, for they are the children of fornications. <span class="reftext">5</span><span class="highl">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><span class="reftext">6</span>Wherefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will stop it up with a wall, and she shall not find her paths.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/1-21.htm">Isaiah 1:21</a></span><br />How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment, become a harlot? justice dwelt in it, but now murderers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/2-25.htm">Jeremiah 2:25</a></span><br />Keep thy foot from being bare, and thy throat from thirst. But thou saidst: I have lost all hope, I will not do it: for I have loved strangers, and I will walk after them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/3-1.htm">Jeremiah 3:1</a></span><br />It is commonly said: If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and marry another man, shall he return to her any more? shall not that woman be polluted, and defiled? but thou hast prostituted thyself to many lovers: nevertheless return to me, saith the Lord, and I will receive thee.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/3-2.htm">Jeremiah 3:2</a></span><br />Lift up thy eyes on high: and see where thou hast not prostituted thyself: thou didst sit in the ways, waiting for them as a robber in the wilderness: and thou hast polluted the land with thy fornications, and with thy wickedness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/44-17.htm">Jeremiah 44:17</a></span><br />But we will certainly do every word that shall proceed out of our own mouth, to sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we and our fathers have done, our kings, and our princes in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and we were filled with bread, and it was well with us, and we saw no evil.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/44-18.htm">Jeremiah 44:18</a></span><br />But since we left off to offer sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and to pour out frank offerings to her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword, and by famine.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hosea/1-2.htm">Hosea 1:2</a></span><br />The beginning of the Lord's speaking by Hosea: and the Lord said to Hosea: Go, take thee a wife of fornications, and have of her children of fornications: for the land by fornication shall depart from the Lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hosea/2-2.htm">Hosea 2:2</a></span><br />Judge your mother, judge her: because she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her put away her fornications from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hosea/2-8.htm">Hosea 2:8</a></span><br />And she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver, and gold, which they have used in the service of Baal.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hosea/2-12.htm">Hosea 2:12</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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hosea/3-1.htm">Hosea 3:1</a></span><br />And the Lord said to me: Go yet again, and love a woman beloved of her friend, and an adulteress: as the Lord loveth the children of Israel, and they look to strange gods, and love the husks of the grapes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hosea/4-5.htm">Hosea 4:5</a></span><br />And thou shalt fall today, and the prophet also shall fall with thee: in the night I have made thy mother to be silent.<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 href="/daniel/9-5.htm">Acted</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-30.htm">A-Whoring</a> <a href="/hosea/2-3.htm">Birth</a> <a href="/daniel/10-3.htm">Bread</a> <a href="/hosea/1-8.htm">Conceived</a> <a href="/daniel/12-2.htm">Disgrace</a> <a href="/daniel/5-2.htm">Drink</a> <a href="/ezekiel/40-3.htm">Flax</a> <a href="/daniel/11-26.htm">Food</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-44.htm">Harlot</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-22.htm">Lovers</a> <a href="/hosea/2-2.htm">Mother</a> <a href="/daniel/10-3.htm">Oil</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-30.htm">Played</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-44.htm">Prostitute</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-11.htm">Shamefully</a> <a href="/ezekiel/39-23.htm">Unfaithful</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-37.htm">Untrue</a> <a href="/hosea/2-3.htm">Water</a> <a href="/daniel/7-9.htm">Wool</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/luke/6-49.htm">Acted</a> <a href="/hosea/4-10.htm">A-Whoring</a> <a href="/hosea/9-11.htm">Birth</a> <a href="/hosea/9-4.htm">Bread</a> <a href="/matthew/1-18.htm">Conceived</a> <a href="/micah/2-6.htm">Disgrace</a> <a href="/hosea/4-18.htm">Drink</a> <a href="/hosea/2-9.htm">Flax</a> <a href="/hosea/2-12.htm">Food</a> <a href="/hosea/3-3.htm">Harlot</a> <a href="/hosea/2-7.htm">Lovers</a> <a href="/hosea/4-5.htm">Mother</a> <a href="/hosea/2-8.htm">Oil</a> <a href="/hosea/4-12.htm">Played</a> <a href="/hosea/3-3.htm">Prostitute</a> <a href="/matthew/22-6.htm">Shamefully</a> <a href="/hosea/4-12.htm">Unfaithful</a> <a href="/hosea/4-2.htm">Untrue</a> <a href="/hosea/5-10.htm">Water</a> <a href="/hosea/2-9.htm">Wool</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/hosea/2-5.htm">Hosea 2:5 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/hosea/2-5.htm">Hosea 2:5 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/hosea/2-5.htm">Hosea 2:5 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/hosea/2-5.htm">Hosea 2:5 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/hosea/2-5.htm">Hosea 2:5 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/hosea/2-5.htm">Hosea 2:5 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/hosea/2-5.htm">Hosea 2:5 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/hosea/2-5.htm">Hosea 2:5 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/hosea/2-5.htm">Hosea 2:5 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: acted after and been bread conceived disgrace drink' flax food For give go harlot has I in linen lovers me mother my oil played said shamefully She the Their them unfaithful water who will wool<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/hosea/2-5.htm">OT Prophets: Hosea 2:5 For their mother has played the prostitute (Ho Hs Hos.) 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