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10 Now I will strip her. She will be naked, so all her lovers can see her. No one will be able to save her from my power.[a] 11 I will take away all her fun. I will stop her festivals, her New Moon celebrations, and her days of rest. I will stop all her special feasts. 12 I will destroy her vines and fig trees. She said, ‘My lovers gave these things to me.’ But I will change her gardens—they will become like a wild forest. Wild animals will come and eat from those plants.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:10 power Literally, “hand.”

10 So now I will expose(A) her lewdness
    before the eyes of her lovers;(B)
    no one will take her out of my hands.(C)
11 I will stop(D) all her celebrations:(E)
    her yearly festivals, her New Moons,
    her Sabbath days—all her appointed festivals.(F)
12 I will ruin her vines(G) and her fig trees,(H)
    which she said were her pay from her lovers;(I)
I will make them a thicket,(J)
    and wild animals will devour them.(K)

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