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I will leave her to die of thirst, as in a dry and barren wilderness. <a href="/esv/hosea/2.htm">English Standard Version</a> lest I strip her naked and make her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and make her like a parched land, and kill her with thirst. <a href="/bsb/hosea/2.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst. <a href="/kjv/hosea/2.htm">King James Bible</a> Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. <a href="/nkjv/hosea/2.htm">New King James Version</a> Lest I strip her naked And expose her, as in the day she was born, And make her like a wilderness, And set her like a dry land, And slay her with thirst. <a href="/nasb_/hosea/2.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> Otherwise, I will strip her naked And expose her as on the day she was born. I will also make her like a wilderness, Make her like desert land, And put her to death with thirst. <a href="/nasb/hosea/2.htm">NASB 1995</a> Or I will strip her naked And expose her as on the day when she was born. I will also make her like a wilderness, Make her like desert land And slay her with thirst. <a href="/nasb77/hosea/2.htm">NASB 1977 </a> Lest I strip her naked And expose her as on the day when she was born. I will also make her like a wilderness, Make her like desert land, And slay her with thirst. <a href="/lsb/hosea/2.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> Lest I strip her naked And set her forth as on the day when she was born And make her like a wilderness And make her like dry land And put her to death with thirst. <a href="/amp/hosea/2.htm">Amplified Bible</a> Or I will strip her naked And expose her as on the day she was born, And make her like a wilderness And make her like a parched land And slay her with thirst. <a href="/csb/hosea/2.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her as she was on the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and like a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst. <a href="/hcsb/hosea/2.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her as she was on the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and like a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst. <a href="/asv/hosea/2.htm">American Standard Version</a> lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. <a href="/cev/hosea/2.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> or I will strip her naked like the day she was born. I will make her barren like a desert, and she will die of thirst. <a href="/erv/hosea/2.htm">English Revised Version</a> lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst; <a href="/gwt/hosea/2.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> If she refuses, I will strip her. I will leave her as naked as the day she was born. I will turn her into a dry and barren land, and she will die of thirst. <a href="/gnt/hosea/2.htm">Good News Translation</a> If she does not, I will strip her as naked as she was on the day she was born. I will make her like a dry and barren land, and she will die of thirst. <a href="/isv/hosea/2.htm">International Standard Version</a> Otherwise, I'll strip her naked— as she was on the day she was born— make her like a wilderness, turn her into a parched land, and cause her to die of thirst. <a href="/msb/hosea/2.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst. <a href="/net/hosea/2.htm">NET Bible</a> Otherwise, I will strip her naked, and expose her like she was when she was born. I will turn her land into a wilderness and make her country a parched land, so that I might kill her with thirst. <a href="/nheb/hosea/2.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> 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 kill her with thirst. <a href="/wbt/hosea/2.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst. <a href="/web/hosea/2.htm">World English Bible</a> 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 kill her with thirst. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/hosea/2.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> Lest I strip her naked. And have set her up as [in] the day of her birth, "" And have made her as a wilderness, "" And have set her as a dry land, "" And have put her to death with thirst. <a href="/ylt/hosea/2.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> Lest I strip her naked. And have set her up as in the day of her birth, And have made her as a wilderness, And have set her as a dry land, And have put her to death with thirst. <a href="/slt/hosea/2.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> Lest I shall strip her naked, and I set her as the day of her birth, and I set her as a desert, and I set her as a land of dryness, and I slew her with thirst.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/hosea/2.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born: and I will make her as a wilderness, and will set her as a land that none can pass through, and will kill her with drought. <a href="/cpdv/hosea/2.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> Otherwise, I may expose her nakedness and set her as on the day of her birth, and I may establish her as a wilderness and set her as an impassable land, and I may execute her with thirst. <a href="/nabre/hosea/2.htm">New American Bible</a> Or I will strip her naked, leaving her as on the day of her birth; I will make her like the wilderness, make her like an arid land, and let her die of thirst. <a href="/nrsvce/hosea/2.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> or I will strip her naked and expose her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and turn her into a parched land, and kill her with thirst.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/hosea/2.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> Lest I strip her naked and leave her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness and as a dry land, and cause her to die with thirst. <a href="/hpbt/hosea/2.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> That I will not strip her naked and I would leave her like the day in which she was born and I would make her as the wilderness and like the thirsty land and I would kill her with thirst<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/hosea/2.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> Lest I strip her naked, And set her as in the day that she was born, And make her as a wilderness, And set her like a dry land, And slay her with thirst. <a href="/sep/hosea/2.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> that I may strip her naked, and make her again as she was at the day of her birth: and I will make her desolate, and make her as a dry land, and will kill her with thirst. <a href="/parallel/hosea/2-3.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=158" 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> …2Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts. 3<a href="/hebrew/6435.htm" title="6435: pen- (Conj) -- Lest. From panah; properly, removal; used only adverb as conjunction, lest.">Otherwise,</a> <a href="/hebrew/6584.htm" title="6584: ’ap̄·šî·ṭen·nāh (V-Hifil-Imperf-1cs:: 3fse) -- To strip off, make a dash, raid. A primitive root; to spread out; by analogy, to strip.">I will strip her</a> <a href="/hebrew/6174.htm" title="6174: ‘ă·rum·māh (Adj-fs) -- Naked. Or marom; from aram; nude, either partially or totally.">naked</a> <a href="/hebrew/3322.htm" title="3322: wə·hiṣ·ṣaḡ·tî·hā (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-ConjPerf-1cs:: 3fs) -- To set, place. A primitive root; to place permanently.">and expose her</a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: kə·yō·wm (Prep-k:: N-msc) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative.">like the day</a> <a href="/hebrew/3205.htm" title="3205: hiw·wā·lə·ḏāh (V-Nifal-Inf:: 3fs) -- A primitive root; to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage.">of her birth.</a> <a href="/hebrew/7760.htm" title="7760: wə·śam·tî·hā (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-1cs:: 3fs) -- To put, place, set. Or siym; a primitive root; to put.">I will make her</a> <a href="/hebrew/4057.htm" title="4057: ḵam·miḏ·bār (Prep-k, Art:: N-ms) -- A pasture, a desert, speech. From dabar in the sense of driving; a pasture; by implication, a desert; also speech.">like a desert</a> <a href="/hebrew/7896.htm" title="7896: wə·šat·ti·hā (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-1cs:: 3fs) -- To put, set. A primitive root; to place.">and turn her into</a> <a href="/hebrew/6723.htm" title="6723: ṣî·yāh (Adj-fs) -- Dryness, drought. From an unused root meaning to parch; aridity; concretely, a desert.">a parched</a> <a href="/hebrew/776.htm" title="776: kə·’e·reṣ (Prep-k:: N-fsc) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth.">land,</a> <a href="/hebrew/4191.htm" title="4191: wa·hă·mit·tî·hā (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-ConjPerf-1cs:: 3fs) -- To die. A primitive root: to die; causatively, to kill.">and I will let her die</a> <a href="/hebrew/6772.htm" title="6772: baṣ·ṣā·mā (Prep-b, Art:: N-ms) -- Thirst. From tsame'; thirst.">of thirst.</a> 4I will have no compassion on her children, because they are the children of adultery.…<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="/ezekiel/16-39.htm">Ezekiel 16:39</a> Then I will deliver you into the hands of your lovers, and they will level your mounds and tear down your lofty shrines. They will strip off your clothes, take your fine jewelry, and leave you naked and bare. <a href="/ezekiel/23-26.htm">Ezekiel 23:26-29</a> They will strip off your clothes and take your fine jewelry. / So I will put an end to your indecency and prostitution, which began in the land of Egypt, and you will not lift your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.’ / For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Surely I will deliver you into the hands of those you hate, from whom you turned away in disgust. ... <a href="/isaiah/47-3.htm">Isaiah 47:3</a> Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.” <a href="/jeremiah/13-22.htm">Jeremiah 13:22</a> And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed. <a href="/lamentations/1-8.htm">Lamentations 1:8</a> Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away. <a href="/nahum/3-5.htm">Nahum 3:5</a> “Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms. <a href="/deuteronomy/28-48.htm">Deuteronomy 28:48</a> you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you. <a href="/isaiah/3-17.htm">Isaiah 3:17</a> the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.” <a href="/jeremiah/13-26.htm">Jeremiah 13:26</a> So I will pull your skirts up over your face, that your shame may be seen. <a href="/micah/1-8.htm">Micah 1:8</a> Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich. <a href="/revelation/3-17.htm">Revelation 3:17</a> You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked. <a href="/revelation/17-16.htm">Revelation 17:16</a> And the ten horns and the beast that you saw will hate the prostitute. They will leave her desolate and naked, and they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire. <a href="/matthew/24-19.htm">Matthew 24:19</a> How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! <a href="/luke/23-29.htm">Luke 23:29</a> Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’ <a href="/1_corinthians/4-11.htm">1 Corinthians 4:11</a> To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.I strip.<a href="/hosea/2-10.htm">Hosea 2:10</a> And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.<a href="/isaiah/47-3.htm">Isaiah 47:3</a> Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.<a href="/jeremiah/13-22.htm">Jeremiah 13:22,26</a> And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare… was born.<a href="/ezekiel/16-4.htm">Ezekiel 16:4-8,22</a> And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all… as.<a href="/isaiah/32-13.htm">Isaiah 32:13,14</a> Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: … <a href="/isaiah/33-9.htm">Isaiah 33:9</a> The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.<a href="/isaiah/64-10.htm">Isaiah 64:10</a> Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.a dry.<a href="/jeremiah/2-6.htm">Jeremiah 2:6</a> Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?<a href="/jeremiah/17-6.htm">Jeremiah 17:6</a> For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.<a href="/jeremiah/51-43.htm">Jeremiah 51:43</a> Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.and slay.<a href="/exodus/17-3.htm">Exodus 17:3</a> And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?<a href="/judges/15-18.htm">Judges 15:18</a> And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?<a href="/amos/8-11.htm">Amos 8:11-13</a> Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: … <div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/hosea/1-8.htm">Bare</a> <a href="/hosea/1-8.htm">Birth</a> <a href="/ezekiel/47-22.htm">Born</a> <a href="/daniel/12-11.htm">Causing</a> <a href="/daniel/7-11.htm">Death</a> <a href="/ezekiel/47-8.htm">Desert</a> <a href="/ezekiel/37-11.htm">Dry</a> <a href="/ezekiel/25-9.htm">Expose</a> <a href="/daniel/12-11.htm">Fear</a> <a href="/daniel/2-14.htm">Kill</a> <a href="/daniel/10-12.htm">Making</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-29.htm">Naked</a> <a href="/daniel/3-16.htm">Need</a> <a href="/isaiah/6-10.htm">Otherwise</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-43.htm">Parched</a> <a href="/daniel/10-5.htm">Robe</a> <a href="/daniel/2-14.htm">Slay</a> <a href="/daniel/4-14.htm">Strip</a> <a href="/lamentations/4-4.htm">Thirst</a> <a href="/ezekiel/26-14.htm">Uncovered</a> <a href="/daniel/9-17.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/daniel/1-12.htm">Water</a> <a href="/ezekiel/34-25.htm">Wilderness</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/joel/1-7.htm">Bare</a> <a href="/hosea/2-5.htm">Birth</a> <a href="/matthew/1-16.htm">Born</a> <a href="/hosea/11-6.htm">Causing</a> <a href="/hosea/4-2.htm">Death</a> <a href="/hosea/2-14.htm">Desert</a> <a href="/hosea/5-12.htm">Dry</a> <a href="/hosea/2-10.htm">Expose</a> <a href="/hosea/3-5.htm">Fear</a> <a href="/hosea/9-16.htm">Kill</a> <a href="/hosea/5-2.htm">Making</a> <a href="/amos/2-16.htm">Naked</a> <a href="/hosea/7-4.htm">Need</a> <a href="/matthew/6-1.htm">Otherwise</a> <a href="/zephaniah/2-13.htm">Parched</a> <a href="/jonah/3-6.htm">Robe</a> <a href="/hosea/9-16.htm">Slay</a> <a href="/micah/2-8.htm">Strip</a> <a href="/amos/8-11.htm">Thirst</a> <a href="/hosea/7-1.htm">Uncovered</a> <a href="/hosea/2-12.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/hosea/2-5.htm">Water</a> <a href="/hosea/2-14.htm">Wilderness</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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This phrase reflects the imagery of shame and vulnerability. In ancient Near Eastern culture, nakedness was often associated with disgrace and humiliation. The act of stripping someone naked symbolized the removal of protection and honor. In the context of Hosea, this represents God's judgment on Israel for her unfaithfulness, likening the nation to an unfaithful wife. The reference to "the day of her birth" suggests a return to a state of helplessness and dependency, emphasizing the severity of the judgment. This imagery is consistent with other prophetic literature, such as <a href="/ezekiel/16.htm">Ezekiel 16</a>, where Israel's unfaithfulness is depicted in similar terms.I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, The transformation into a desert signifies desolation and barrenness. In the biblical context, deserts are often places of testing and judgment, as seen in the Israelites' wanderings in the wilderness. The imagery of a "parched land" underscores the absence of life and sustenance, reflecting the consequences of Israel's spiritual adultery. This desolation can be seen as a reversal of the blessings promised to Israel, such as the land flowing with milk and honey. The prophetic message warns of the physical and spiritual drought that results from turning away from God.and I will let her die of thirst. Thirst in the Bible often symbolizes a deep spiritual need or longing. In this context, dying of thirst represents the ultimate consequence of Israel's separation from God, who is the source of living water. This imagery is echoed in other scriptures, such as <a href="/jeremiah/2-13.htm">Jeremiah 2:13</a>, where God is described as the "spring of living water," and the people's rejection of Him leads to spiritual drought. The phrase also foreshadows the New Testament revelation of Jesus Christ as the living water (<a href="/john/4-10.htm">John 4:10-14</a>), offering eternal satisfaction to those who believe in Him. The judgment here serves as a call to repentance and a reminder of the necessity of remaining in covenant relationship with God.<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/g/gomer.htm">Gomer</a> Hosea's wife, whose unfaithfulness symbolizes Israel's spiritual adultery. 3. <a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a> The Northern Kingdom, often depicted as an unfaithful wife to God, who is her husband. 4. <a href="/topical/d/desert/wilderness.htm">Desert/Wilderness</a> Symbolic of desolation and judgment, representing the consequences of Israel's unfaithfulness. 5. <a href="/topical/d/day_of_birth.htm">Day of Birth</a> A metaphor for vulnerability and exposure, indicating a return to a state of helplessness and need.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_adultery_and_consequences.htm">Spiritual Adultery and Consequences</a> Just as Gomer's unfaithfulness led to shame and exposure, our spiritual infidelity to God results in spiritual barrenness and vulnerability. <a href="/topical/g/god's_righteous_judgment.htm">God's Righteous Judgment</a> The imagery of a desert and wilderness underscores the severity of God's judgment on unfaithfulness, reminding us of the seriousness of sin. <a href="/topical/c/call_to_repentance.htm">Call to Repentance</a> The stark warning in <a href="/hosea/2-3.htm">Hosea 2:3</a> serves as a call to repentance, urging us to turn back to God before facing the consequences of our actions. <a href="/topical/g/god's_desire_for_restoration.htm">God's Desire for Restoration</a> Despite the harsh imagery, the broader context of Hosea reveals God's ultimate desire to restore and redeem His people, offering hope beyond judgment. <a href="/topical/d/dependence_on_god.htm">Dependence on God</a> The metaphor of thirst highlights our need for God as the source of spiritual life and sustenance, encouraging us to seek Him earnestly.<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_is_hosea_2_3_loving_and_merciful.htm">How does Hosea 2:3 align with a loving and merciful God if He threatens to strip Israel bare like a barren land? </a> <a href="/q/what_defines_spiritual_emptiness.htm">What defines spiritual emptiness?</a> <a href="/q/how_did_water_appear_in_the_desert.htm">How could water supernaturally appear in a desert valley without rain or wind (2 Kings 3:17)?</a> <a href="/q/why_only_mark_mentions_the_naked_man.htm">Mark 14:51-52 - Why does only Mark mention the young man fleeing naked, and what historical or symbolic significance could this event have?</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>(3) Set her . . .--Reduce Israel to the destitute exposed condition in which she struggled into being in Egyptian bondage, and endured the wanderings and terrors of the wilderness. Probably we have here an allusion to the custom of female infanticide, which still prevails very widely in the East, as it did in the ancient world, the child being simply abandoned to death on the day that she was born. (Comp. <a href="/ezekiel/16-4.htm" title="And as for your nativity, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, neither were you washed in water to supple you; you were not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.">Ezekiel 16:4</a>.)<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/hosea/2.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 3. - Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born. The Lord, by his servant the prophet, enforces the preceding exhortation by a stern denunciation, and the threat of further severities unless averted by repentance; as an injured husband withdraws from a faithless wife all the gifts and presents he had made for her adornment, leaving her poor and bare. Not only the removal of her garments by way of degradation and disgrace, but exposure in that position to insult and ignominy would ensue. In other words, the nation is threatened with deprivation of all the blessings previously lavished upon them - property, prosperity, population, and privileges; while dishonor of the deepest dye would aggravate the misery. The day of the nation's birth denotes the weakness and wretchedness of their infant state. To this corresponded their servile, suffering condition during their bondage and oppression in Egypt. Rashi thus explains it; Kimchi says, "The figure of birth is the time they are slaves in Egypt;" so also Theodoret, - the latter calls the day of her birth the sojourn in Egypt. The Prophet Ezekiel (<a href="/ezekiel/16-4.htm">Ezekiel 16:4</a>) expands the idea, occasionally employing, as Rosenmüller remarks, the very words of Hosea. And make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and clay her with thirst. This part of the verse is susceptible of two explanations. The faithless female, under which character the northern kingdom is personified, may be compared to a wilderness, that is, according to Cyril, fruitless, parched, and productive only of thorns, thirsty and waterless. This comparison of a woman to a desert is wanting in suitability, and seems in some degree awkward in itself, beside being out of harmony with the closing clause; for to "slay with thirst," however applicable to a person, cannot with any propriety be said of a place, whether desert or otherwise. No doubt the wilderness may stand for those dwelling in it. We prefer, therefore, the alternative rendering, "make her as in a wilderness, and set her as in a dry land." Rashi aptly explains the threat to mean, "Lest I pronounce against them such a sentence as of old in this desert (<a href="/numbers/14-35.htm">Numbers 14:35</a>), 'In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.'" There is, moreover, a natural connection of ideas between a wilderness, a dry land, and thirst. The nation's birth, represented by or compared to their sojourn in Egypt, naturally suggests the idea of their wandering in the wilderness after their exodus from that country; a wilderness, again, suggests what is an ordinary feature of such a district, namely, a dry land; while a region thus without water is suggestive as well as provocative of thirst. The former explanation, however, is given by Kimehi: "I will make thee like the wilderness which is open to every one, and in which, moreover, one finds no means of subsistence, nor anything that man needs; so I'll withdraw my goodness from them, and they shall be surrendered as a prey to every one." <a href="/commentaries/hosea/2-3.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>Otherwise, פֶּן־ (pen-) Conjunction <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6435.htm">Strong's 6435: </a> Removal, lest I will strip אַפְשִׁיטֶ֣נָּה (’ap̄·šî·ṭen·nāh) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - first person common singular | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6584.htm">Strong's 6584: </a> To strip off, make a dash, raid her naked עֲרֻמָּ֔ה (‘ă·rum·māh) Adjective - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6174.htm">Strong's 6174: </a> Nude, either partially, totally and expose her וְהִ֨צַּגְתִּ֔יהָ (wə·hiṣ·ṣaḡ·tî·hā) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3322.htm">Strong's 3322: </a> To place permanently like the day כְּי֖וֹם (kə·yō·wm) Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3117.htm">Strong's 3117: </a> A day of her birth. הִוָּֽלְדָ֑הּ (hiw·wā·lə·ḏāh) Verb - Nifal - Infinitive construct | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3205.htm">Strong's 3205: </a> To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage I will make her וְשַׂמְתִּ֣יהָ (wə·śam·tî·hā) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7760.htm">Strong's 7760: </a> Put -- to put, place, set like a desert כַמִּדְבָּ֗ר (ḵam·miḏ·bār) Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4057.htm">Strong's 4057: </a> A pasture, a desert, speech and turn her into וְשַׁתִּ֙הָ֙ (wə·šat·ti·hā) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7896.htm">Strong's 7896: </a> To put, set a parched צִיָּ֔ה (ṣî·yāh) Adjective - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6723.htm">Strong's 6723: </a> Aridity, a desert land, כְּאֶ֣רֶץ (kə·’e·reṣ) Preposition-k | Noun - feminine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_776.htm">Strong's 776: </a> Earth, land and I will let her die וַהֲמִתִּ֖יהָ (wa·hă·mit·tî·hā) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4191.htm">Strong's 4191: </a> To die, to kill of thirst. בַּצָּמָֽא׃ (baṣ·ṣā·mā) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6772.htm">Strong's 6772: </a> Thirst <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/hosea/2-3.htm">Hosea 2:3 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/hosea/2-3.htm">Hosea 2:3 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/hosea/2-3.htm">Hosea 2:3 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/hosea/2-3.htm">Hosea 2:3 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/hosea/2-3.htm">Hosea 2:3 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/hosea/2-3.htm">Hosea 2:3 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/hosea/2-3.htm">Hosea 2:3 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/hosea/2-3.htm">Hosea 2:3 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/hosea/2-3.htm">Hosea 2:3 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/hosea/2-3.htm">Hosea 2:3 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/hosea/2-3.htm">OT Prophets: Hosea 2:3 Lest I strip her naked and make (Ho Hs Hos.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/hosea/2-2.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Hosea 2:2"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Hosea 2:2" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/hosea/2-4.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Hosea 2:4"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Hosea 2:4" /></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>