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 16:22In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were wallowing in your blood.
• Isa 32:13–14Thorns and briers will come up on my people’s land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
• Amos 8:11–13Behold, the days come,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing Yahweh’s words.
• Jer 13:22If you say in your heart, “Why are these things come on me?” For the greatness of your iniquity your skirts are uncovered, and your heels suffer violence.
• Ezek 19:13Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
• Exod 17:3The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?”
• Jer 12:10Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard. They have trodden my portion under foot. They have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
• Rev 17:16The ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute, and will make her desolate, and will make her naked, and will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire.
• Ezek 23:26–29They will also strip you of your clothes, and take away your beautiful jewels.
• Ezek 16:37–39therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved, with all those who you have hated; I will even gather them against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
• Jer 13:26Therefore will I also uncover your skirts on your face, and your shame shall appear.
• Ezek 16:4–8As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, neither were you washed in water to cleanse you. You weren’t salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
• Jer 4:26I saw, and behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of Yahweh, before his fierce anger.
• Ezek 20:35–36I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.
• Jer 2:31Generation, consider Yahweh’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?’
• Isa 33:9The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.
• Jer 22:6For Yahweh says concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You are Gilead to me, the head of Lebanon. Yet surely I will make you a wilderness, cities which are not inhabited.
• Judg 15:18He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh, and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
• Isa 64:10Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
• Jer 51:43Her cities have become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass by it.
• Jer 2:6They didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who 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 one passed through, and where no man lived?’
• Isa 47:3Your nakedness will be uncovered. Yes, your shame will be seen. I will take vengeance, and will spare no one.”
• Jer 17:6For he shall be like a bush in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.
• Hos 2:10Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand.

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