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Hosea 2:9

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2:9Therefore, I will take back32 my grain during the harvest time33

and my new wine when it ripens;34

I will take away my wool and my flax

which I had provided35 in order to clothe her.36

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Footnotes

  1. 32 Heb “I will return and I will take.” The two verbs joined with vav conjunction form a verbal hendiadys in which the first verb functions adverbially and the second retains its full verbal sense ( §120.d, h): אָשׁוּב וְלָקַחְתִּי (’ashuv vélaqakhti) means “I will take back.”
  2. 33 Heb “in its time” (so , ).
  3. 34 Heb “in its season” (so , , ).
  4. 35 The words “which I had provided” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons; cf. “intended to cover.”
  5. 36 Heb “to cover her nakedness” (so and many other English versions); “for clothing.” This announcement of judgment is extremely ironic and forcefully communicates poetic justice: The punishment will fit the crime. The Israelites were literally uncovering their nakedness in temple prostitution in the Baal fertility cult rituals. Yahweh will, in effect, give them what they wanted (nakedness) but not in the way they wanted it: Yahweh will withhold the agricultural fertility they sought from Baal which would lead to nakedness caused by impoverishment.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Therefore I will take back

my grain in its time,

and my wine in its season,

and I will take away my wool and my flax,

which were to cover her nakedness.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“Therefore I will take away my grain when it ripens,

and my new wine when it is ready.

I will take back my wool and my linen,

intended to cover her naked body.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Therefore, I will take back my grain in its time

and my new wine in its season;

I will take away my wool and linen,

which were to cover her nakedness.

NLTNew Living Translation

“But now I will take back the ripened grain and new wine

I generously provided each harvest season.

I will take away the wool and linen clothing

I gave her to cover her nakedness.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Therefore I will take again

my grain in its time,

and my wine in its season;

and I will take away my wool and my flax,

which were to cover her nakedness.

KJV 1900King James Version

Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof,

And my wine in the season thereof,

And will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.