Cross references

Hosea 2:3

Otherwise, I will strip her naked

and expose her like the day of her birth.

I will make her like a desert

and turn her into a parched land,

and I will let her die of thirst.

Hosea 2:3 BSB

Hosea 2:3 has 24 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ezekiel 16:22 (6 votes) and Isaiah 32:13–14 (4 votes). 24 other verses point back to it. It links with 11 other books, from Exodus 17 to Revelation 17.

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Which verses does Hosea 2:3 point to?

The 20 strongest of 24, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. And in all your abominations and acts of prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your own blood.

  2. 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—

  3. And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.

  4. Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.

  5. Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD. People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it. …

  6. But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”

  7. For this is what the LORD says concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You are like Gilead to Me, like the summit of Lebanon; but I will surely turn you into a desert, like cities that are uninhabited.

  8. And being very thirsty, Samson cried out to the LORD, “You have accomplished this great deliverance through Your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”

  9. The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

  10. Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.”

  11. So I will pull your skirts up over your face, that your shame may be seen.

Which verses point to Hosea 2:3?

The 10 strongest of 24.