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Hosea 2:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her as she was on the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and like a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.

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In all your detestable practices and acts of prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth  when you were stark naked and thrashing around in your blood.


Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.


And when you ask yourself, ‘Why have these things happened to me? ’ it is because of your great guilt that your skirts have been stripped off, your body exposed.


The ten horns you saw, and the beast, will hate the prostitute.  They will make her desolate and naked, devour her flesh, and burn her up with fire.


Her cities have become a desolation, an arid desert, a land where no one lives, where no human being even passes through.


For this is what the Lord says concerning the house of the king of Judah: ‘You are like Gilead  to me, or the summit of Lebanon, but I will certainly turn you into a wilderness, uninhabited cities.


He will be like a juniper in the Arabah; he cannot see when good comes but dwells in the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land where no one lives.


I will pull your skirts up over your face so that your shame might be seen.


Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard; they have trampled my plot of land. They have turned my desirable plot into a desolate wasteland.


I looked, and the fertile field  was a wilderness. All its cities were torn down because of the  Lord and his burning anger.


Evil generation, pay attention to the word of the  Lord! Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do my people claim, ‘We will go where we want; we will no longer come to you’?


They stopped asking, ‘Where is the  Lord who brought us from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and ravines, through a land of drought and darkness, a land no one travelled through and where no one lived? ’


Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.


Your nakedness will be uncovered, and your disgrace will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.’


The land mourns and withers; Lebanon is ashamed and wilted. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.


He became very thirsty and called out to the Lord, ‘You have accomplished this great victory through your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised? ’


But the people thirsted there for water and grumbled against Moses. They said, ‘Why did you ever bring us up from Egypt to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst? ’


Now I will expose her shame in the sight of her lovers, and no one will rescue her from my power.


Their nobles send their servants  for water. They go to the cisterns; they find no water; their containers return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.


Although he flourishes among his brothers,  , an east wind will come, a wind from the Lord rising up from the desert. His water source will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind  will plunder the treasury of every precious item.


For Israel and Judah are not left widowed by their God, the  Lord of Armies, though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.





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