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I will let them grow into tangled thickets, where only wild animals will eat the fruit. <a href="/esv/hosea/2.htm">English Standard Version</a> And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, ‘These are my wages, which my lovers have given me.’ I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall devour them. <a href="/bsb/hosea/2.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> I will destroy her vines and fig trees, which she thinks are the wages paid by her lovers. So I will make them into a thicket, and the beasts of the field will devour them. <a href="/kjv/hosea/2.htm">King James Bible</a> 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. <a href="/nkjv/hosea/2.htm">New King James Version</a> “And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, Of which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me.’ So I will make them a forest, And the beasts of the field shall eat them. <a href="/nasb_/hosea/2.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> “And I will destroy her vines and fig trees, Of which she said, ‘They are my wages for prostitution Which my lovers have given me.’ And I will turn them into a forest, And the animals of the field will devour them. <a href="/nasb/hosea/2.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8220I will destroy her vines and fig trees, Of which she said, &#8216These are my wages Which my lovers have given me.&#8217 And I will make them a forest, And the beasts of the field will devour them. <a href="/nasb77/hosea/2.htm">NASB 1977 </a> “And I will destroy her vines and fig trees, Of which she said, ‘These are my wages Which my lovers have given me.’ And I will make them a forest, And the beasts of the field will devour them. <a href="/lsb/hosea/2.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> And I will make desolate her vines and fig trees, Of which she said, ‘These are my wages Which my lovers have given me.’ And I will make them a forest, And the beasts of the field will devour them. <a href="/amp/hosea/2.htm">Amplified Bible</a> “I will destroy her vines and her fig trees Of which she has said, ‘These are my wages Which my lovers have given me.’ And I will make them a forest, And the animals of the open country will devour them. <a href="/csb/hosea/2.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> I will devastate her vines and fig trees. She thinks that these are her wages that her lovers have given her. I will turn them into a thicket, and the wild animals will eat them. <a href="/hcsb/hosea/2.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> I will devastate her vines and fig trees. She thinks that these are her wages that her lovers have given her. I will turn them into a thicket, and the wild animals will eat them. <a href="/asv/hosea/2.htm">American Standard Version</a> 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. <a href="/cev/hosea/2.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> 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. <a href="/erv/hosea/2.htm">English Revised Version</a> 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. <a href="/gwt/hosea/2.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> I will destroy her grapevines and fig trees. She said that they were gifts from her lovers. I will turn her vineyards into a forest, and wild animals will devour them. <a href="/gnt/hosea/2.htm">Good News Translation</a> 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. <a href="/isv/hosea/2.htm">International Standard Version</a> I'll destroy her vines and her fig trees, about which she said, 'These are the earnings that my lovers paid me. I'll make them grow into a forest, and the wild animals will eat from them.' <a href="/msb/hosea/2.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> I will destroy her vines and fig trees, which she thinks are the wages paid by her lovers. So I will make them into a thicket, and the beasts of the field will devour them. <a href="/net/hosea/2.htm">NET Bible</a> I will destroy her vines and fig trees, about which she said, "These are my wages for prostitution that my lovers gave to me!" I will turn her cultivated vines and fig trees into an uncultivated thicket, so that wild animals will devour them. <a href="/nheb/hosea/2.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> 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. <a href="/wbt/hosea/2.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> And I will destroy her vines and her fig-trees, of which 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. <a href="/web/hosea/2.htm">World English Bible</a> 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. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/hosea/2.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> And made desolate her vine and her fig tree, "" Of which she said, They [are] a wage to me, "" That my lovers have given to me, "" And I have made them for a forest, "" And a beast of the field has consumed them. <a href="/ylt/hosea/2.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> And made desolate her vine and her fig-tree, Of which she said, A gift they are to me, That my lovers have given to me, And I have made them for a forest, And consumed them hath a beast of the field. <a href="/slt/hosea/2.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And I destroyed her vine and her fig tree, of which she said, They are wages to me which those loving me gave to me: and I set them for a forest, and the beasts of the field ate them.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/hosea/2.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> 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. <a href="/cpdv/hosea/2.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> And I will corrupt her vines and her fig trees, about which she said, ‘These rewards, they are mine, my lovers have given them to me.’ And I will place her in a narrow forest, and the beasts of the field will devour her. <a href="/nabre/hosea/2.htm">New American Bible</a> 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. <a href="/nrsvce/hosea/2.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> 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.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/hosea/2.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, These are presents which my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them. <a href="/hpbt/hosea/2.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> And I shall destroy her vines and fig trees, of which she said: ‘they are gifts which my lovers gave to me’, and I shall make them a forest, and the animals of the wilderness will devour them<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/hosea/2.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> 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. <a href="/sep/hosea/2.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> And I will utterly destroy her vines, and her fig-trees, all things of which she said, These are my hire which my lovers have given me: and I will make them a testimony, and the wild beasts of the field, and the birds of the sky, and the reptiles of the earth shall devour them. <a href="/parallel/hosea/2-12.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xpPG1oLnpGk?start=261" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/hosea/2.htm">Israel's Adultery Rebuked</a> …11I will put an end to all her exultation: her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—all her appointed feasts. 12<a href="/hebrew/8074.htm" title="8074: wa·hă·šim·mō·ṯî (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-ConjPerf-1cs) -- To be desolated or appalled. A primitive root; to stun, i.e. Devastate or stupefy.">I will destroy</a> <a href="/hebrew/1612.htm" title="1612: gap̄·nāh (N-csc:: 3fs) -- A vine. From an unused root meaning to bend; a vine, especially the grape.">her vines</a> <a href="/hebrew/8384.htm" title="8384: ū·ṯə·’ê·nā·ṯāh (Conj-w:: N-fsc:: 3fs) -- Fig tree. Or t:enah; perhaps of foreign derivation; the fig.">and fig trees,</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.">which</a> <a href="/hebrew/559.htm" title="559: ’ā·mə·rāh (V-Qal-Perf-3fs) -- To utter, say. A primitive root; to say.">she thinks</a> <a href="/hebrew/1992.htm" title="1992: hêm·māh (Pro-3mp) -- They. Or hemmah; masculine plural from halak; they."></a> <a href="/hebrew/lî (Prep:: 1cs) -- "></a> <a href="/hebrew/866.htm" title="866: ’eṯ·nāh (N-fs) -- The wages (of a harlot). From tanah; a present.">are the wages</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc."></a> <a href="/hebrew/5414.htm" title="5414: nā·ṯə·nū- (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- To give, put, set. A primitive root; to give, used with greatest latitude of application.">paid</a> <a href="/hebrew/lî (Prep:: 1cs) -- "></a> <a href="/hebrew/157.htm" title="157: mə·’a·hă·ḇāy (V-Piel-Prtcpl-mpc:: 1cs) -- To love. Or raheb; a primitive root; to have affection for.">by her lovers.</a> <a href="/hebrew/7760.htm" title="7760: wə·śam·tîm (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-1cs:: 3mp) -- To put, place, set. Or siym; a primitive root; to put.">So I will make them</a> <a href="/hebrew/3293.htm" title="3293: lə·ya·‘ar (Prep-l:: N-ms) -- From an unused root probably meaning to thicken with verdure; a copse of bushes; hence, a forest; hence, honey in the comb.">into a thicket,</a> <a href="/hebrew/2416.htm" title="2416: ḥay·yaṯ (N-fsc) -- Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life. From chayah; alive; hence, raw; fresh, strong; also life, whether literally or figuratively.">and the beasts</a> <a href="/hebrew/7704.htm" title="7704: haś·śā·ḏeh (Art:: N-ms) -- Field, land. Or saday; from an unused root meaning to spread out; a field.">of the field</a> <a href="/hebrew/398.htm" title="398: wa·’ă·ḵā·lā·ṯam (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-3fs:: 3mp) -- To eat. A primitive root; to eat.">will devour them.</a> 13I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/isaiah/5-6.htm">Isaiah 5:6</a> I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.” <a href="/jeremiah/12-4.htm">Jeremiah 12:4</a> How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.” <a href="/joel/1-7.htm">Joel 1:7</a> It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white. <a href="/amos/4-9.htm">Amos 4:9</a> “I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD. <a href="/micah/6-15.htm">Micah 6:15</a> You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine. <a href="/deuteronomy/28-30.htm">Deuteronomy 28:30</a> You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit. <a href="/isaiah/17-10.htm">Isaiah 17:10-11</a> For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines— / though on the day you plant you make them grow, and on that morning you help your seed sprout—yet the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain. <a href="/jeremiah/5-17.htm">Jeremiah 5:17</a> They will devour your harvest and food; they will consume your sons and daughters; they will eat up your flocks and herds; they will feed on your vines and fig trees. With the sword they will destroy the fortified cities in which you trust.” <a href="/ezekiel/15-6.htm">Ezekiel 15:6-8</a> Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give up the people of Jerusalem. / And I will set My face against them. Though they may have escaped the fire, yet another fire will consume them. And when I set My face against them, you will know that I am the LORD. / Thus I will make the land desolate, because they have acted unfaithfully,’ declares the Lord GOD.” <a href="/zephaniah/1-13.htm">Zephaniah 1:13</a> Their wealth will be plundered and their houses laid waste. They will build houses but not inhabit them, and plant vineyards but never drink their wine. <a href="/matthew/21-19.htm">Matthew 21:19</a> Seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. “May you never bear fruit again!” He said. And immediately the tree withered. <a href="/mark/11-13.htm">Mark 11:13-14</a> Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, He went to see if there was any fruit on it. But when He reached it, He found nothing on it except leaves, since it was not the season for figs. / Then He said to the tree, “May no one ever eat of your fruit again.” And His disciples heard this statement. <a href="/luke/13-6.htm">Luke 13:6-9</a> Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it but did not find any. / So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Therefore cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’ / ‘Sir,’ the man replied, ‘leave it alone again this year, until I dig around it and fertilize it. ... <a href="/john/15-2.htm">John 15:2</a> He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful. <a href="/romans/11-17.htm">Romans 11:17-21</a> Now if some branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others to share in the nourishment of the olive root, / do not boast over those branches. If you do, remember this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. / You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.” ...</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she has 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.destroy.<a href="/hosea/2-5.htm">Hosea 2:5</a> 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.<a href="/hosea/9-1.htm">Hosea 9:1</a> Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.I will.<a href="/psalms/80-12.htm">Psalm 80:12</a> Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?<a href="/isaiah/5-5.htm">Isaiah 5:5</a> And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:<a href="/isaiah/7-23.htm">Isaiah 7:23</a> And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/daniel/8-4.htm">Animals</a> <a href="/daniel/8-4.htm">Beast</a> <a href="/daniel/8-4.htm">Beasts</a> <a href="/daniel/11-16.htm">Consumed</a> <a href="/daniel/12-11.htm">Desolate</a> <a href="/daniel/11-44.htm">Destroy</a> <a href="/daniel/11-26.htm">Eat</a> <a href="/daniel/4-32.htm">Field</a> <a href="/jeremiah/8-13.htm">Fig</a> <a href="/jeremiah/8-13.htm">Fig-Tree</a> <a href="/jeremiah/5-17.htm">Fig-Trees</a> <a href="/hosea/2-5.htm">Food</a> <a href="/ezekiel/31-5.htm">Forest</a> <a href="/ezekiel/48-20.htm">Gift</a> <a href="/ezekiel/29-20.htm">Hire</a> <a href="/daniel/8-27.htm">Lay</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-41.htm">Pay</a> <a href="/isaiah/33-18.htm">Payments</a> <a href="/daniel/5-17.htm">Rewards</a> <a href="/ezekiel/31-13.htm">Ruin</a> <a href="/daniel/7-17.htm">These</a> <a href="/jeremiah/12-5.htm">Thicket</a> <a href="/ezekiel/47-12.htm">Trees</a> <a href="/ezekiel/19-12.htm">Vine</a> <a href="/jeremiah/52-16.htm">Vines</a> <a href="/ezekiel/29-19.htm">Wages</a> <a href="/hosea/2-3.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/daniel/9-2.htm">Whereof</a> <a href="/daniel/5-21.htm">Wild</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/hosea/2-18.htm">Animals</a> <a href="/hosea/9-13.htm">Beast</a> <a href="/hosea/2-18.htm">Beasts</a> <a href="/hosea/11-6.htm">Consumed</a> <a href="/hosea/5-9.htm">Desolate</a> <a href="/hosea/4-5.htm">Destroy</a> <a href="/hosea/4-8.htm">Eat</a> <a href="/hosea/2-18.htm">Field</a> <a href="/hosea/9-10.htm">Fig</a> <a href="/hosea/9-10.htm">Fig-Tree</a> <a href="/amos/4-9.htm">Fig-Trees</a> <a href="/hosea/4-8.htm">Food</a> <a href="/amos/3-4.htm">Forest</a> <a href="/micah/1-14.htm">Gift</a> <a href="/hosea/8-10.htm">Hire</a> <a href="/hosea/12-2.htm">Lay</a> <a href="/hosea/5-1.htm">Pay</a> <a href="/micah/1-7.htm">Payments</a> <a href="/amos/5-12.htm">Rewards</a> <a href="/hosea/4-14.htm">Ruin</a> <a href="/zechariah/1-10.htm">These</a> <a href="/amos/3-4.htm">Thicket</a> <a href="/joel/1-7.htm">Trees</a> <a href="/hosea/10-1.htm">Vine</a> <a href="/joel/1-7.htm">Vines</a> <a href="/hosea/9-1.htm">Wages</a> <a href="/hosea/2-14.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/luke/23-14.htm">Whereof</a> <a href="/hosea/8-9.htm">Wild</a><div class="vheading2">Hosea 2</div>1. <a href="/hosea/2-1.htm">The idolatry of the people.</a> 6. <a href="/hosea/2-6.htm">God's judgments against them.</a> 14. <a href="/hosea/2-14.htm">His promises of reconciliation with them.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The destruction of these plants signifies the removal of Israel's blessings due to their unfaithfulness. This imagery is consistent with the covenant curses outlined in <a href="/deuteronomy/28-30.htm">Deuteronomy 28:30</a>, where disobedience leads to agricultural devastation. The vine and fig tree also represent security and abundance, as seen in <a href="/1_kings/4-25.htm">1 Kings 4:25</a>, where every man lived safely under his vine and fig tree during Solomon's reign. The destruction here is a direct consequence of Israel's idolatry and reliance on foreign alliances rather than God.which she thinks are the wages paid by her lovers Israel's "lovers" refer to the foreign nations and false gods they pursued, believing these alliances and idols provided their prosperity. This reflects a misunderstanding of the source of their blessings, which were actually from God. The term "wages" suggests a transactional relationship, highlighting Israel's spiritual adultery. This mirrors the theme in <a href="/ezekiel/16-33.htm">Ezekiel 16:33</a>, where Israel is depicted as an unfaithful wife who pays her lovers instead of being paid. The false security in these alliances is a recurring theme in the prophetic books, emphasizing the futility of trusting in anything other than God.So I will make them into a thicket The transformation of cultivated land into a thicket symbolizes neglect and desolation. This imagery is used in <a href="/isaiah/5-6.htm">Isaiah 5:6</a>, where God allows a vineyard to become overgrown as a judgment. A thicket implies a return to wilderness, a reversal of the order and care God provided. This serves as a metaphor for the spiritual state of Israel, which has become wild and untamed due to their abandonment of God. The thicket also represents the chaos and disorder that result from sin and disobedience.and the beasts of the field will devour them The presence of wild beasts indicates a land left unprotected and abandoned, a common consequence of divine judgment as seen in <a href="/leviticus/26-22.htm">Leviticus 26:22</a>. This reflects the removal of God's protective hand over Israel, allowing natural consequences to follow. The devouring of the land by beasts is a vivid picture of destruction and loss, emphasizing the severity of Israel's punishment. It also serves as a warning of the dangers of spiritual infidelity, where the absence of God's presence leads to vulnerability and ruin.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/h/hosea.htm">Hosea</a> A prophet in the Northern Kingdom of Israel, called by God to deliver messages of judgment and redemption. 2. <a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a> The Northern Kingdom, often depicted as an unfaithful wife in Hosea's prophecies, symbolizing the nation's spiritual adultery. 3. <a href="/topical/v/vines_and_fig_trees.htm">Vines and Fig Trees</a> Symbols of prosperity and blessing in ancient Israel, representing the nation's material wealth and security. 4. <a href="/topical/p/prostitution.htm">Prostitution</a> Used metaphorically to describe Israel's idolatry and unfaithfulness to God, pursuing other gods and alliances. 5. <a href="/topical/b/beasts_of_the_field.htm">Beasts of the Field</a> Representing destruction and desolation, often used in prophetic literature to signify judgment.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_adultery_and_idolatry.htm">Spiritual Adultery and Idolatry</a> Just as Israel was unfaithful to God by pursuing other deities, we must examine our own lives for modern forms of idolatry, such as materialism or misplaced priorities. <a href="/topical/c/consequences_of_unfaithfulness.htm">Consequences of Unfaithfulness</a> The destruction of vines and fig trees serves as a warning that turning away from God leads to loss and desolation. We should strive to remain faithful to God's covenant. <a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_in_judgment.htm">God's Sovereignty in Judgment</a> The passage reminds us that God is in control and will execute judgment on unfaithfulness. This should lead us to a healthy fear of the Lord and a desire to live righteously. <a href="/topical/r/repentance_and_restoration.htm">Repentance and Restoration</a> While the passage speaks of judgment, the broader context of Hosea includes themes of repentance and God's desire to restore His people. We should be encouraged to seek God's forgiveness and restoration.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_hosea_2.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Hosea 2</a> <a href="/q/how_to_show_approval_worthiness.htm">What does the Fig Tree Prophecy entail?</a> <a href="/q/why_curse_a_fig_tree_out_of_fig_season.htm">Mark 11:12-14, 20-21: Why would Jesus curse a fig tree for lacking fruit when it was not the season for figs?</a> <a href="/q/how_is_israel_'swallowed'_yet_distinct.htm">Hosea 8:8: How do we reconcile Israel being 'swallowed up' by other nations with promises of their continued distinct identity?</a> <a href="/q/verify_historical_basis_of_jesus's_'true_vine'.htm">John 15:1-2: How can we verify, historically or otherwise, that Jesus's 'true vine' metaphor reflects anything beyond cultural symbolism and legend?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/hosea/2.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(12) Destroy.--For this read, with margin, make desolate. The vine and fig tree are employed as the symbol of possession and peace (<a href="/1_kings/4-25.htm" title="And Judah and Israel dwelled safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.">1Kings 4:25</a>; <a href="/isaiah/36-16.htm" title="Listen not to Hezekiah: for thus said the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat you every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink you every one the waters of his own cistern;">Isaiah 36:16</a>, &c.). The desolation may be by fire or drought.Make them a forest.--The LXX. render make them a testimony, reading in the Hebrew text l''ed instead of l'ya'ar. The latter certainly yields a more vivid sense. The rest of the verse in the LXX. is amplified: "And the wild beasts of the field, and the birds of the heaven, and the creeping things of the earth shall devour them." While no candid critic will deny the possibility that such words may have originally stood in the text, it is a priori more probable that it is a gloss from <a href="/hosea/2-18.htm" title="And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.">Hosea 2:18</a> (<a href="/hosea/2-20.htm" title="I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness: and you shall know the LORD.">Hosea 2:20</a> in LXX.). Even so late as in Hadrian's days wild beasts rushed in upon the blood-stained ruins of Jerusalem.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/hosea/2.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 12. - And I will destroy (make desolate) her vines and her fig trees, whereof she said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me. God had already threatened to deprive Israel of the means of support - the corn, wine, wool, and flax; he now threatens the removal of the very sources whence that support was derived. The vine and fig tree are usually conjoined, and by a common synecdoche convey the idea of all those sources that combine to support life and supply its luxuries. When the united kingdom of Judah and Israel, before the disruption, had obtained the zenith of prosperity in the reign of Solomon, it is thus expressed: Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon." Yet Israel knew not the time of her merciful visitation, and not only turned aside to idols, but most stupidly and most inexcusably attributed the many mercies she enjoyed to the idols which she worshipped. Like a foul adulteress despising the tokens of her husband's affection and delighting in the rewards of lewdness received from licentious paramours, Israel forfeited all her privileges, and forced the Lord to withdraw his bounties and destroy their very source. גֶפֶן rad. גפן, equivalent to תאן, to be bent, from the arch made by its drooping boughs, תְאֵנָה, rad. תאן, equivalent to תנן, to extend from its length. And I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them. The places where fig trees flourished and vines abounded shall be stripped of those trees, with their pleasant fruits - shall become a forest. The vineyards being no longer hedged or fenced, no longer cultivated or cared for, the beasts of the field shall, in consequence, find free ingress and roam there at large, devouring and devastating at pleasure. The Septuagint translates the first part of the above sentence by καὶ θήσομαι αὐτὰ εἰς μαρτύριον, "and I will make them a testimony," thus reading, according to Jerome, עֵד, instead of יעַרַ; while Cyril comments on the words so read as follows: "For these things being taken away shall testify as it were against Israel's depravity, and render their punishment more signal, and make the wrath conspicuous." The context, however, militates against the reading in question, for in time of war or general devastation places, through neglect, grow trees and brushwood, where wild beasts lair and lay waste. The explanation of the verse is well given by Kimchi in his commentary: "Because she said, 'These are the hire of my harlotry;' because she said that from the hand of her lovers came the corn and must and oil and all good things; - I will make them a desolation, that she may know whether she had those good things from me or from them. אתנה, because he has compared her to a harlot, he calls those good things אתנה, equivalent to אחנן וינה; while their signification is identical with חנאי, and their root, תנה [extend, reach, give], the aleph being prosthetic. But Jonathan renders אתנה by יְקַר, precious things. And he mentions the vine and the fig tree because grapes and figs are the best part of the food of man after the produce of the earth (i.e. corn); and already he had said, 'I will also take away my corn in its season.'" <a href="/commentaries/hosea/2-12.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>I will destroy וַהֲשִׁמֹּתִ֗י (wa·hă·šim·mō·ṯî) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8074.htm">Strong's 8074: </a> To stun, devastate, stupefy her vines גַּפְנָהּ֙ (gap̄·nāh) Noun - common singular construct | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1612.htm">Strong's 1612: </a> A vine, the grape and fig trees, וּתְאֵ֣נָתָ֔הּ (ū·ṯə·’ê·nā·ṯāh) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8384.htm">Strong's 8384: </a> Of foreign derivation, the fig which אֲשֶׁ֣ר (’ă·šer) Pronoun - relative <a href="/hebrew/strongs_834.htm">Strong's 834: </a> Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that she thinks אָמְרָ֗ה (’ā·mə·rāh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_559.htm">Strong's 559: </a> To utter, say are the wages אֶתְנָ֥ה (’eṯ·nāh) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_866.htm">Strong's 866: </a> The wages (of a harlot) paid נָֽתְנוּ־ (nā·ṯə·nū-) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5414.htm">Strong's 5414: </a> To give, put, set by her lovers. מְאַֽהֲבָ֑י (mə·’a·hă·ḇāy) Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine plural construct | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_157.htm">Strong's 157: </a> To have affection f So I will make וְשַׂמְתִּ֣ים (wə·śam·tîm) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular | third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7760.htm">Strong's 7760: </a> Put -- to put, place, set them into a thicket, לְיַ֔עַר (lə·ya·‘ar) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3293.htm">Strong's 3293: </a> A copse of bushes, a forest, honey in the comb and the beasts חַיַּ֥ת (ḥay·yaṯ) Noun - feminine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2416.htm">Strong's 2416: </a> Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life of the field הַשָּׂדֶֽה׃ (haś·śā·ḏeh) Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7704.htm">Strong's 7704: </a> Field, land will devour them. וַאֲכָלָ֖תַם (wa·’ă·ḵā·lā·ṯam) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular | third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_398.htm">Strong's 398: </a> To eat <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/hosea/2-12.htm">Hosea 2:12 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/hosea/2-12.htm">Hosea 2:12 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/hosea/2-12.htm">Hosea 2:12 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/hosea/2-12.htm">Hosea 2:12 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/hosea/2-12.htm">Hosea 2:12 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/hosea/2-12.htm">Hosea 2:12 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/hosea/2-12.htm">Hosea 2:12 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/hosea/2-12.htm">Hosea 2:12 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/hosea/2-12.htm">Hosea 2:12 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/hosea/2-12.htm">Hosea 2:12 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/hosea/2-12.htm">OT Prophets: Hosea 2:12 I will lay waste her vines (Ho Hs Hos.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/hosea/2-11.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Hosea 2:11"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Hosea 2:11" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/hosea/2-13.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Hosea 2:13"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Hosea 2:13" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>