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Hosea 2:5 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’ "

Hosea 2:5

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3 lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.

4 Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy, for they are children of unfaithfulness.

5 For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’

6 Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way.

7 She will follow after her lovers, but she won’t overtake them; and she will seek them, but won’t find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband, for then it was better with me than now.’

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"and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink."

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Revelation 2:22

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"Behold, I will throw her and those who commit adultery with her into a bed of great oppression, unless they repent of her works."

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Deuteronomy 22:21

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"then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father’s house. So you shall remove the evil from among you."

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Jeremiah 15:8

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"Their widows are increased more than the sand of the seas. I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday. I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly."

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Jeremiah 44:17-18

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"But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil."

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Isaiah 1:21

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"How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice. Righteousness lodged in her, but now there are murderers."

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From This Chapter

Hosea 2:1

"“Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’ and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’"

Hosea 2:2

"Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;"

Hosea 2:3

"lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst."

Hosea 2:4

"Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy, for they are children of unfaithfulness."

Hosea 2:6

"Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way."

Hosea 2:7

"She will follow after her lovers, but she won’t overtake them; and she will seek them, but won’t find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband, for then it was better with me than now.’"

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