Hosea 2:11

What does Hosea 2:11 mean?

A plain-English look at Hosea 2:11 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

And I will put an end to all her joy, her feasts, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her regular meetings.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

And I have caused to cease all her joy, Her festival, her new moon, and her sabbath, Even all her appointed times,

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

And I will cause all her mirth to cease, her solemnities, her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her festival times.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

And I will cause all her mirth to cease: her feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths! and all her solemnities.

Context

v.10And now will I uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.

v.11This passage

v.12And 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.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Isaiah 1:13

    Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; new moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies,—I cannot away with iniquity and the solemn meeting.

  • Nahum 1:10

    For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.

  • Jeremiah 7:34

    Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.

  • Ezekiel 26:13

    And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.

  • Revelation 18:22

    And the voice of harpers and minstrels and flute-players and trumpeters shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft, shall be found any more at all in thee; and the voice of a mill shall be heard no more at all in thee;

  • 1 Kings 12:32

    And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he went up unto the altar; so did he in Beth-el, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Beth-el the priests of the high places that he had made.

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