Hosea 2:2-5

Hosea 2:2-5

[2] Plead  with your mother,  plead:  for she is not my wife,  neither am I her husband:  let her therefore put away  her whoredoms  out of her sight,  and her adulteries  from between her breasts;  [3] Lest I strip  her naked,  and set  her as in the day  that she was born,  and make  her as a wilderness,  and set  her like a dry  land,  and slay  her with thirst.  [4] And I will not have mercy  upon her children;  of whoredoms.  [5] For their mother  hath played the harlot:  she that conceived  them hath done shamefully:  for she said,  after  my lovers,  that give  me my bread  and my water,  my wool  and my flax,  mine oil  and my drink. 

What does Hosea 2:2-5 Mean?

Contextual Meaning

These messages develop the comparison between Hosea"s relationship with his adulterous wife and Yahweh"s relationship with unfaithful Israel more fully. In both relationships, restoration follows judgment.