The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 185
185. Internal Meaning of Hosea, Chapter 2
1-4 Exhortation to abstain from the falsifications of the Word, otherwise there will be no church, but it will be without goods and truths, as before. (11, 2)
5-7 They will become as before when they loved evil and falsity, but they will be withheld. (11, 2)
8 They will return to God whom they worshipped at that time, and from whom they received good, not knowing that this was from the Lord;, (11, 2)
9-13 but because they still did not worship Him, but another god, goods and truths will be vastated. (11, 2)
14-17 Those who will be of the new church, are to be purified by temptations, and prepared, (11)
18-20 and a new church constituted of such will come into existence, which will acknowledge the Lord. (11)
21-23 Then they will receive all things of heaven and the church. (11)
Hosea 2:9-13
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.
12
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.
