Hosea 2:3

God warns that He may strip the unfaithful nation bare and leave her desolate as a consequence of her sin. The threat exposes the ruin that idolatry invites.

Cross-references · 24

• Ezek 16:22And in all your abominations and acts of prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your own blood.
• Isa 32:13–14and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.
• Amos 8:11–13Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.
• Jer 13:22And 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.
• Ezek 19:13Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
• Exod 17:3But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”
• Jer 12:10Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.
• Rev 17:16And the ten horns and the beast that you saw will hate the prostitute. They will leave her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.
• Ezek 23:26–29They will strip off your clothes and take your fine jewelry.
• Ezek 16:37–39therefore I will surely gather all the lovers with whom you found pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and expose you before them, and they will see you completely naked.
• Jer 13:26So I will pull your skirts up over your face, that your shame may be seen.
• Ezek 16:4–8On the day of your birth your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing. You were not rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.
• Jer 4:26I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert. All its cities were torn down before the LORD, before His fierce anger.
• Ezek 20:35–36And I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, where I will enter into judgment with you face to face.
• Jer 2:31You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to You no more’?
• Isa 33:9The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
• Jer 22:6For this is what the LORD says concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You are like Gilead to Me, like the summit of Lebanon; but I will surely turn you into a desert, like cities that are uninhabited.
• Judg 15:18And being very thirsty, Samson cried out to the LORD, “You have accomplished this great deliverance through Your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
• Isa 64:10Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
• Jer 51:43Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.
• Jer 2:6They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’
• Isa 47:3Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.”
• Jer 17:6He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
• Hos 2:10And then I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of My hands.

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