Hosea 2:13

¹³ And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, in which she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her ear-rings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith the LORD.

The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 184

184. Internal Meaning of Hosea, Chapter 1 (1)

1-3 The prophet represented the falsification of the Word with the Jewish nation. (3)

3-5 That profane church will be destroyed when the Lord comes. (3, 1)

6 No pity is possible;, (3, 1)

7 but the Lord will pity those who will be of His new church. (1, 11)

7-9 When nothing of the church will any longer remain, (3)

10-11 then the new church will grow, and will acknowledge the Lord. (11)

Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for the permission to use this translation.