Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
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.
New American Standard Bible
And expose her as on the
I will also
Make her like desert land
And slay her with
King James Version
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.
International Standard Version
Otherwise, I'll strip her naked as she was on the day she was born make her like a wilderness, turn her into a parched land, and cause her to die of thirst.
A Conservative Version
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 kill her with thirst.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
Or I will strip her naked
And expose her as on the day she was born,
And make her like a wilderness
And make her like a parched land
And slay her with thirst.
Bible in Basic English
For fear that I may take away her robe from her, making her uncovered as in the day of her birth; making her like a waste place and a dry land, causing her death through need of water.
Darby Translation
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 as a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
Julia Smith Translation
Lest I shall strip her naked, and I set her as the day of her birth, and I set her as a desert, and I set her as a land of dryness, and I slew her with thirst
King James 2000
Lest I strip her naked, and make her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and make her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Lest I strip her naked and expose her like the day when she was born; I will make her like the desert and turn her into parched land; I will kill her with thirst.
Modern King James verseion
lest I strip her naked and set her out as in the day that she was born; and lest I make her as the wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If no, I shall strip her naked, and set her, even as she came into the world. Yea, I shall lay her waste, and make her like a wilderness, and slay her for thirst.
NET Bible
Otherwise, I will strip her naked, and expose her like she was when she was born. I will turn her land into a wilderness and make her country a parched land, so that I might kill her with thirst.
New Heart English Bible
Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.
The Emphasized Bible
Lest I strip off her under-clothing, and set her forth to view, as in the day she was born, - and make her like a wilderness, and render her like a land that is parched, and suffer her to die of thirst;
Webster
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 kill her with thirst.
World English Bible
Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.
Youngs Literal Translation
Lest I strip her naked. And have set her up as in the day of her birth, And have made her as a wilderness, And have set her as a dry land, And have put her to death with thirst.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 2:3
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Context Readings
Israel's Adultery Rebuked
2
For she is not My wife and I am not her husband.
Let her remove the promiscuous look from her face
and her adultery from between her breasts.
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.
because they are the children of promiscuity.
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Cross References
Isaiah 32:13-14
growing thorns and briers,
indeed, for every joyous house in the joyful city.
Ezekiel 16:22
In all your detestable practices and acts of prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth
Jeremiah 13:22
“Why have these things happened to me?”
It is because of your great guilt
that your skirts have been stripped off,
your body exposed.
Ezekiel 19:13
in a dry and thirsty land.
Amos 8:11-13
this is the declaration of the Lord God—
when I will send a famine through the land:
not a famine of bread or a thirst for water,
but of hearing the words of the Lord.
Exodus 17:3
But the people thirsted there for water, and grumbled against Moses. They said, “Why did you ever bring us out of Egypt to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?”
Judges 15:18
He became very thirsty and called out to the Lord: “You have accomplished this great victory through
Isaiah 33:9
Lebanon is ashamed and decayed.
Sharon is like a desert;
Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
Isaiah 47:3
and your shame will be exposed.
I will take vengeance;
I will spare no one.
Isaiah 64:10
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
Jeremiah 2:6
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 traveled through
and where no one lived?”
Jeremiah 2:31
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”?
Jeremiah 4:26
All its cities were torn down
because of the Lord
and His burning anger.
Jeremiah 12:10
they have trampled My plot of land.
They have turned My desirable plot
into a desolate wasteland.
Jeremiah 13:26
so that your shame might be seen.
Jeremiah 17:6
he cannot see when good comes
but dwells in the parched places in the wilderness,
in a salt land where no one lives.
Jeremiah 22:6
For this is what the Lord says concerning the house of the king of Judah:
or the summit of Lebanon,
but I will certainly turn you into a wilderness,
uninhabited cities.
Jeremiah 51:43
a dry and arid land,
a land where no one lives,
where no human being passes through.
Ezekiel 16:4-8
As for your birth, your umbilical cord wasn’t cut on the day you were born,
Ezekiel 16:37-39
I am therefore going to gather all the lovers you pleased
Ezekiel 20:35-36
I will lead you into the wilderness of the peoples
Ezekiel 23:26-29
They will strip off your clothes and take your beautiful jewelry.
Hosea 2:10
in the sight of her lovers,
and no one will rescue her from My hands.
Revelation 17:16
The 10 horns you saw, and the beast, will hate the prostitute.