Cross references

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.

Hosea 2:12 BSB

Hosea 2:12 has 11 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Isaiah 5:5 (4 votes) and Isaiah 7:23 (4 votes). 15 other verses point back to it. It links with 8 other books, from Psalm 80 to Luke 15.

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Which verses does Hosea 2:12 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Isaiah 5:54 votes

    Now 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.

  2. And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.

  3. Hosea 2:53 votes

    For 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.’

  4. Hosea 13:83 votes

    Like 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 tearing them apart.

  5. Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?

  6. In a very short time, will not Lebanon become an orchard, and the orchard seem like a forest?

  7. and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry. For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever—the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks— …

  8. I 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.”

  9. “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.’

  10. Hosea 9:12 votes

    Do 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.

  11. Micah 3:122 votes

Which verses point to Hosea 2:12?

The 10 strongest of 15.