Hosea 2:8-13
1599 Geneva Bible
8 Now she did not know that I [a]gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they bestowed upon Baal.
9 Therefore will I return, and take away [b]my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax lent, to cover her shame.
10 And now will I discover her [c]lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no man shall deliver her out of mine hand.
11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them as a forest, and the wild beasts shall eat them.
13 And I will visit upon her the days of [d]Baal, wherein she burnt incense to them: and she decked herself with her [e]earrings and her jewels, and she followed her lovers, and forgot me, saith the Lord.
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- Hosea 2:8 This declareth that idolaters defraud God of his honor, when they attribute his benefits to their idols.
- Hosea 2:9 Signifying, that God will take away his benefits when man by his ingratitude doth abuse them.
- Hosea 2:10 That is, all her service, ceremonies and inventions whereby she worshipped her idols.
- Hosea 2:13 I will punish her for her idolatry.
- Hosea 2:13 By showing how harlots trim themselves to please others, he declareth how that superstitious idolaters set a great part of their religion, in decking themselves on their holy days.
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