Hosea 2:3-5
1599 Geneva Bible
3 Lest I strip her naked, and [a]set her as in the day that she was [b]born, and make her as a wilderness, and leave her like a dry land, and slay her for thirst.
4 And I will have no pity upon her children: for they be the [c]children of fornication.
5 For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them, hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after thy [d]lovers that give me my bread and my water, my wool, and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
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- Hosea 2:3 For though this people were as an harlot for their idolatries, yet he had left them with their apparel and dowry and certain signs of his favor, but if they continued still, he would utterly destroy them.
- Hosea 2:3 When I brought her out of Egypt, Ezek. 16:4.
- Hosea 2:4 That is, bastards and begotten in adultery.
- Hosea 2:5 Meaning, the idol which they served, and by whom they thought they had wealth and abundance.
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