Hosea 2:3

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

or I will strip her naked like the day she was born. I will make her barren like a desert, and she will die of thirst.

Cross References

Exodus 17:3

But the people were thirsty and kept on complaining, “Moses, did you bring us out of Egypt just to let us and our families and our animals die of thirst?”

Isaiah 33:9

Fields are dry and barren; Mount Lebanon wilts with shame. Sharon Valley is a desert; the forests of Bashan and Carmel have lost their leaves.

Isaiah 47:3

You will suffer the shame of going naked, because I will take revenge, and no one can escape.

Isaiah 64:10

Every one of your towns has turned into a desert, especially Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 12:10

My beautiful land is ruined like a field or a vineyard trampled by shepherds and stripped bare by their flocks.

Jeremiah 13:22

Do you know why your clothes were torn off and you were abused? It was because of your terrible sins.

Jeremiah 13:26

You were married to me, but you were unfaithful. You even became a prostitute by worshipping disgusting gods on hilltops and in fields. So I'll rip off your clothes and leave you naked and ashamed for everyone to see. You are doomed! Will you ever be worthy to worship me again?

Jeremiah 14:3

Rulers send their servants to the storage pits for water. But there's none to be found; they return in despair with their jars still empty.

Jeremiah 17:6

They will dry up like a bush in salty desert soil, where nothing can grow.

Jeremiah 2:31

Now listen to what I say! Did I abandon you in the desert or surround you with darkness? You are my people, yet you have told me, “We'll do what we want, and we refuse to worship you!”

Jeremiah 2:6

Your ancestors refused to ask for my help, though I had rescued them from Egypt and led them through a treacherous, barren desert, where no one lives or dares to travel.

Jeremiah 22:6

Listen to what I think about it: the palace of Judah's king is as glorious as Gilead or Lebanon's highest peaks. But it will be as empty as a ghost town when I'm through with it.

Jeremiah 4:26

Farmland had become a desert, and towns were in ruins. The LORD's fierce anger had done all of this.

Jeremiah 51:43

Horrible destruction will strike the nearby towns. The land will become a barren desert, where no one can live or even travel.

Jeremiah 51:5

Everyone in Israel and Judah is guilty. But I, the LORD All-Powerful, their holy God, have not abandoned them.

Ezekiel 16:22

You were so busy sinning and being a prostitute that you refused to think about the days when you were young and were rolling around naked in your own blood.

Ezekiel 19:13

Then she was planted in a hot, dry desert,

Hosea 13:15

No matter how much you prosper more than the other tribes, I, the LORD, will wipe you out, just as a scorching desert wind dries up streams of water. I will take away your precious treasures.

Hosea 2:10

Then I'll strip her naked in the sight of her lovers. No one can rescue her.

Revelation 17:16

The ten horns and the beast will start hating the shameless woman. They will strip off her clothes and leave her naked. Then they will eat her flesh and throw the rest of her body into a fire.

Judges 15:18

Samson was so thirsty that he prayed, “Our LORD, you helped me win a battle against a whole army. Please don't let me die of thirst now. Those heathen Philistines will carry off my dead body.”