Passage

Hosea 2.11

Book: Hosea · NASB95

Immediate context (±2 verses)

ASV

9. Therefore will I take back my grain in the time thereof, and my new wine in the season thereof, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness. 10. And now will I uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.

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

And 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. 13. And I will visit upon her the days of the Baalim, unto which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith Jehovah. (Hosea 2:9-13, ASV)

WEB

9. Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness. 10. Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand.

11. I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.

I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest,’ and the animals of the field shall eat them. 13. I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me,” says Yahweh. (Hosea 2:9-13, WEB)

KJV

9. 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. ^{recover: or, take away} 10. And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand. ^{lewdness: Heb. folly, or, villany}

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

And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them. ^{destroy: Heb. make desolate} 13. And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD. (Hosea 2:9-13, KJV)

YLT

9. Therefore do I turn back, And I have taken My corn in its season, And My new wine in its appointed time, And I have taken away My wool and My flax, covering her nakedness. 10. And now do I reveal her dishonour before the eyes of her lovers, And none doth deliver her out of My hand.

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

And made desolate her vine and her fig-tree, Of which she said, A gift they [are] to me, That my lovers have given to me, And I have made them for a forest, And consumed them hath a beast of the field. 13. And I have charged on her the days of the Baalim, To whom she maketh perfume, And putteth on her ring and her ornament, And goeth after her lovers, And Me forgat, an affirmation of Jehovah. (Hosea 2:9-13, YLT)

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Setting

Speaker: YHWH speaking through Hosea son of Beeri (1:1). Most scholars trace the oracles to Hosea himself, while many hold that the book received its final shape later in Judah, where it was preserved after Samaria fell
Audience: the northern kingdom of Israel, often called Ephraim after its leading tribe
Location: the northern kingdom
Time period: c. 750-722 BC, from the last years of Jeroboam II through the dynastic chaos that followed to the eve of Samaria's fall to Assyria (1:1; 2 Kings 15-17)
Literary context: the first divine speech of chapter 2 (2:2-13), the marriage lawsuit in which YHWH, as the wronged husband, strips the unfaithful wife of the gifts she credited to her lovers. Hebrew numbering runs two verses higher in this chapter (2:13 in the Hebrew Bible).

Theological reading

"I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies." (Hosea 2:11, ASV)

"Her" feasts. The calendar listed here is Israel's sacred year: annual feasts, new moons, sabbaths and appointed assemblies (compare Leviticus 23; Numbers 28-29). YHWH gave these days, yet he calls them "her" feasts. Worship that has been folded into the Baal cult (2:13) no longer belongs to him, and he will end it.

Removal as discipline. The same chapter that ends the festivals goes on to promise a new betrothal (2:14-20). Taking away the counterfeit joy is the first step of the restoration, not the last word. See Hosea 2.16-20.

The same list elsewhere. Isaiah 1:13-14 rejects new moons, sabbaths and appointed feasts kept by a people with bloody hands, and Paul uses the triad "a feast day or a new moon or a sabbath day" when he calls such things a shadow of what was to come (Colossians 2:16-17). The prophetic objection is never to the days themselves but to their use as cover for unfaithfulness.

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Why these four translations

ris3n chose ASV, WEB, KJV, and YLT for two reasons together. They are the most literal English translations available (formal-equivalence: word-for-word renderings that preserve the Hebrew and Greek grammar rather than smoothing it into modern dynamic-equivalence idiom). And they are in the public domain in the United States, which means fair-use quotation at any length requires no publisher license. Modern licensed translations (NASB95, ESV, NIV) restrict volume of quotation under their copyright terms, so they are not used at stub-level coverage here. NASB95 appears only on hand-curated rich passage hubs under Lockman Foundation's fair-use allowance.

The four:

ASV (American Standard Version, 1901). The basis of the modern critical-text English tradition.
WEB (World English Bible, contemporary). Public-domain revision in the ASV line, in current English.
KJV (King James Version, 1611). Reformation-era, Textus Receptus base.
YLT (Young's Literal Translation, Robert Young, 1862). Hyper-literal preservation of Hebrew and Greek grammar; useful for word-study work even where English reads stiff.

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