In the Bible, what appears to be one thing may be representative of something else. Here, the mother is Israel, God is the husband and other men are the false gods Israel prefers. Idolatry, promiscuity and adultery were all linked to grief and destruction, and they still are.
Hosea 2:2-4 (TLB) 2 “Plead with your mother, for she has become another man’s wife—I am no longer her husband. Beg her to stop her harlotry, to quit giving herself to others. 3 If she doesn’t, I will strip her as naked as the day she was born and cause her to waste away and die of thirst as in a land riddled with famine and drought. 4 And I will not give special favors to her children as I would to my own, for they are not my children; they belong to other men.
7/19/2020
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