Hosea 2:3
Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
Cross-references
In Hosea 2:10, God says He will uncover her lewdness, fulfilling the threat of stripping naked pronounced in 2:3.
Hosea 2:9 develops the threat by taking away the wool and flax that cover her nakedness, fulfilling the stripping.
Ezekiel 16:22 recalls Israel's naked youth—same imagery as Hosea's threat to strip her and make her wilderness.
In Revelation 17:16, the beast strips the prostitute Babylon naked and destroys her, applying Hosea's judgment imagery to the end-time harlot.
In Ezekiel 23:26-29, the sisters Oholah and Oholibah are stripped and left naked, mirroring the punishment of the unfaithful wife in Hosea.
In Ezekiel 16:37-39, God gathers Israel's lovers to strip her naked, directly paralleling the judgment threatened in Hosea.
Jeremiah 22:6 declares 'I will make you a wilderness'—direct parallel to Hosea's threat against Israel.
In Jeremiah 13:26, God says He will lift skirts over faces to expose shame — a very similar image of judgment for unfaithfulness.
Jeremiah 12:10 says shepherds made God's portion a desolate wilderness—mirroring Hosea's threat of making her like a wilderness.
Jeremiah 4:26 sees fruitful land turned to desert—identical outcome to Hosea's threat: wilderness from God's fierce anger.
Isaiah 64:10 laments holy cities become a wilderness—same word (midbar) as Hosea's threat, showing God's judgment on unfaithful people.
Lamentations 1:8 describes Jerusalem's nakedness exposed because of sin, directly mirroring the shameful stripping threatened here.
Exodus 32:25 shows Israel stripped naked in shame, directly paralleling Hosea's threat to strip Israel naked.
Ezekiel 16:39 says 'they shall strip thee of thy clothes'—a direct parallel to the stripping judgment in Hosea.
Ezekiel 23:10 says 'they discovered her nakedness' in judgment, mirroring the threat of exposure here.
In Jeremiah 13:22, the lifting of skirts is explained as punishment for great iniquity, clarifying the reason for the stripping in Hosea.
In Ezekiel 16:4, the day of birth is described as abandoned and unwashed, giving detail to what 'as in the day she was born' means in Hosea.
Ezekiel 20:36 recalls God's wilderness judgment on Israel's fathers, paralleling the wilderness judgment threatened here.
Jeremiah 2:31 asks 'Have I been a wilderness to Israel?'—contrasting God's care with Hosea's threat of making her wilderness.
In Isaiah 47:3, Babylon's nakedness is uncovered as judgment, using the same imagery of divine exposure for pride and idolatry.
Isaiah 32:11 calls women to strip and put on sackcloth, echoing the same stripping imagery as a sign of judgment and mourning.
Ezekiel 20:35 uses wilderness as place of judgment, echoing Hosea's threat to make Israel like a wilderness.
Amos 8:11-13 warns of a spiritual famine and thirst, a different kind of judgment than Hosea's physical thirst, but both use thirst as divine punishment.
Revelation 16:15 warns of nakedness and shame for the unwatchful, mirroring Hosea's threat of stripping naked as judgment.