Hosea 2:9
Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.
Context
This verse from Hosea Chapter 2 connects to 10 cross-references. The marriage metaphor extends to God's relationship with Israel: she has gone after her lovers not knowing God was the one who gave her grain, wine, and oil. God will block her path and woo her back to the wilderness …
Other Translations
Therefore will I take back my grain in the time thereof, and my new wine in the season thereof, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.
Therefore do I turn back, And I have taken My corn in its season, And My new wine in its appointed time, And I have taken away My wool and My flax, covering her nakedness.
So I will take away again my grain in its time and my wine, and I will take away my wool and my linen with which her body might have been covered.
Cross References
In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, …
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, …
In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to …
Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto …
And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break …
They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.
For the king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former, and shall …
Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as …
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield …