Hosea 2:3

Good News Translation

If she does not, I will strip her as naked as she was on the day she was born. I will make her like a dry and barren land, and she will die of thirst.

Cross References

Exodus 17:3

But the people were very thirsty and continued to complain to Moses. They said, “Why did you bring us out of Egypt? To kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?”

Isaiah 33:9

The land lies idle and deserted. The forests of Lebanon have withered, the fertile valley of Sharon is like a desert, and in Bashan and on Mount Carmel the leaves are falling from the trees.

Isaiah 47:3

People will see you naked; they will see you humbled and shamed. I will take vengeance, and no one will stop me.”

Isaiah 64:10

Your sacred cities are like a desert; Jerusalem is a deserted ruin,

Jeremiah 12:10

Many foreign rulers have destroyed my vineyard; they have trampled down my fields; they have turned my lovely land into a desert.

Jeremiah 13:22

If you ask why all this has happened to you—why your clothes have been torn off and you have been raped—it is because your sin is so terrible.

Jeremiah 13:26

The Lord himself will strip off your clothes and expose you to shame.

Jeremiah 14:3

The rich people send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; they come back with their jars empty. Discouraged and confused, they hide their faces.

Jeremiah 17:6

He is like a bush in the desert, which grows in the dry wasteland, on salty ground where nothing else grows. Nothing good ever happens to him.

Jeremiah 2:31

People of Israel, listen to what I am saying. Have I been like a desert to you, like a dark and dangerous land? Why, then, do you say that you will do as you please, that you will never come back to me?

Jeremiah 2:6

They did not care about me, even though I rescued them from Egypt and led them through the wilderness: a land of deserts and sand pits, a dry and dangerous land where no one lives and no one will even travel.

Jeremiah 22:6

“To me, Judah's royal palace is as beautiful as the land of Gilead and as the Lebanon Mountains; but I will make it a desolate place where no one lives.

Jeremiah 4:26

The fertile land had become a desert; its cities were in ruins because of the Lord's fierce anger. (

Jeremiah 51:43

The towns have become a horrifying sight and are like a waterless desert, where no one lives or even travels.

Jeremiah 51:5

I, the Lord God Almighty, have not abandoned Israel and Judah, even though they have sinned against me, the Holy One of Israel.

Ezekiel 16:22

During your disgusting life as a prostitute you never once remembered your childhood—when you were naked, squirming in your own blood.”

Ezekiel 19:13

Now it is planted in the desert, in a dry and waterless land.

Hosea 13:15

Even though Israel flourishes like weeds, I will send a hot east wind from the desert, and it will dry up their springs and wells. It will take away everything of value.

Hosea 2:10

I will strip her naked in front of her lovers, and no one will be able to save her from my power.

Revelation 17:16

The ten horns you saw and the beast will hate the prostitute; they will take away everything she has and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and destroy her with fire.

Judges 15:18

Then Samson became very thirsty, so he called to the Lord and said, “You gave me this great victory; am I now going to die of thirst and be captured by these heathen Philistines?”