KJV King James Version
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 a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
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Hosea 2:12
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 a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
I will destroy her vines and fig trees, which she thinks are the wages paid by her lovers. So I will make them into a thicket, and the beasts of the field will devour them.
WEB World English Bible
I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest,’ and the animals of the field shall eat them.
ASV American Standard Version
And I will lay waste her vines and her fig-trees, whereof she hath said, These are my hire that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And made desolate her vine and her fig-tree, Of which she said, A gift they are to me, That my lovers have given to me, And I have made them for a forest, And consumed them hath a beast of the field.
Surrounding context — Hosea 2
9 Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax [given] to cover her nakedness.
10 And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none 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 a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
13 And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.
14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
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וַהֲשִׁמֹּתִ֗יH8074 · sha.membe desolate: destroyedגַּפְנָהּ֙H1612 · ge.phenvineוּתְאֵ֣נָתָ֔הּH8384 · te.e.nahfigאֲשֶׁ֣רH834 · a.sherwhichאָמְרָ֗הH559 · a.marto sayאֶתְנָ֥הH866 · et.nahwagesהֵ֙מָּה֙H1992 · hem.mahthey(masc.)לִ֔יH9030 · nimeאֲשֶׁ֥רH834 · a.sherwhichנָֽתְנוּ־H5414 · na.tanto give: giveלִ֖יH9030 · nimeמְאַֽהֲבָ֑יH157 · a.havto love: loverוְשַׂמְתִּ֣יםH7760 · sumto set: makeלְיַ֔עַרH3293 · ya.arwoodוַאֲכָלָ֖תַםH398 · a.khalto eatחַיַּ֥תH2416 · chayaliveהַשָּׂדֶֽה׃H7704 · sa.daySirion
Cross-references
Isaiah 7:23And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall [even] be for briers and thorns.Isaiah 5:5And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; [and] break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:Hosea 2:5For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give [me] my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.Hosea 13:8I will meet them as a bear [that is] bereaved [of her whelps], and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.Micah 3:12Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed [as] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.Hosea 9:1Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as [other] people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.Isaiah 29:17[Is] it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?Jeremiah 8:13I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: [there shall be] no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and [the things that] I have given them shall pass away from them.Isaiah 32:13-15Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns [and] briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy [in] the joyous city:Jeremiah 26:18Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed [like] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.Psalm 80:12Why hast thou [then] broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
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