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Hosea 2:12

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.

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ASV

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.

KJV

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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17 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַהֲשִׁמֹּתִ֗יva.ha.shi.mo.Tiand I will devastateH8074 →
גַּפְנָהּ֙gaf.Nahvine[s] herH1612 →
וּתְאֵ֣נָתָ֔הּu.te.'E.na.Tahand fig tree[s] herH8384 →
אֲשֶׁ֣ר'a.SherwhichH834 →
אָמְרָ֗ה'a.me.Rahshe saidH559 →
אֶתְנָ֥ה'et.Nah[are] wage[s]H866 →
הֵ֙מָּה֙he.mahtheyH1992 →
לִ֔יLiof me
אֲשֶׁ֥ר'a.SherwhichH834 →
נָֽתְנוּ־na.te.nu-they gaveH5414 →
לִ֖יlito me
מְאַֽהֲבָ֑יme.'a.ha.Vailovers myH157 →
וְשַׂמְתִּ֣יםve.sam.Timand I will make themH7760 →
לְיַ֔עַרle.Ya.'arinto a thicketH3293 →
וַאֲכָלָ֖תַםva.'a.kha.La.tamand it will consume themH398 →
חַיַּ֥תchai.Yat[the] animal[s] ofH2416 →
הַשָּׂדֶֽה׃ha.sa.Dehthe fieldH7704 →

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Isaiah 5:5Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.Isaiah 7:23And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.Micah 1:7All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.Hosea 13:8Like a bear robbed of her cubs I will attack them, and I will tear open their chests. There I will devour them like a lion, like a wild beast would tear them apart.Hosea 2:5For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’Joel 1:7It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white.Isaiah 29:17In a very short time, will not Lebanon become an orchard, and the orchard seem like a forest?Isaiah 32:13–15and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.Jeremiah 26:18“Micah the Moreshite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and told all the people of Judah that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.’Psalms 80:12Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?Jeremiah 8:13I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the tree, and even the leaf will wither. Whatever I have given them will be lost to them.”Hosea 9:1Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.Micah 3:12Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.Ezekiel 16:33Men give gifts to all their prostitutes, but you gave gifts to all your lovers. You bribed them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors.Isaiah 32:10In a little more than a year you will tremble, O secure ones. For the grape harvest will fail and the fruit harvest will not arrive.Hosea 9:2The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.Hosea 2:15There I will give back her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.

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