And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
Parallel translations
- WEB Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand.
- BSB And then I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of My hands.
- NKJV Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, And no one shall deliver her from My hand.
- NASB “So now I will uncover her lewdness Before the eyes of her lovers, And no one will rescue her from My hand.
- NLT I will strip her naked in public, while all her lovers look on. No one will be able to rescue her from my hands.
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Quick answer
God will publicly expose the nation's shame before her lovers, and no idol will be able to rescue her. The impotence of false gods is laid bare.
Overview
The 'lovers,' the Baals she trusted, are shown powerless to deliver her from God's hand. Public exposure of her lewdness underscores that idolatry leads not to security but to humiliation. The verse declares the central lesson of the chapter: there is no deliverance outside of Yahweh, and every rival to Him will fail those who trust in it.
Cross-references & the web
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- Luke 12:2–3For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.
- Ezek 23:29And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
- Ezek 16:36–37Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;
- Hos 2:3Lest 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.
- Prov 11:21Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
- Isa 3:17Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
- Jer 13:26Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.
- 1 Cor 4:5Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
- Ps 50:22Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
- Hos 5:13–14When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.
- Jer 13:22And 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.
- Mic 5:8And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.
- Hos 13:7–8Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them:
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