Hosea 2:3
Lest 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.
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 …
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lest 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.
Lest I strip her naked. And have set her up as <FI>in<Fi> the day of her birth, And have made her as a wilderness, And have set her as a dry land, And have put her to death with thirst.
For fear that I may take away her robe from her, making her uncovered as in the day of her birth; making her like a waste place and a dry land, causing her death through need of water.
Referensi Silang
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Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any …
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For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit …
Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.
And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are …