Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Hosea 2:11 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 11. 11I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
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Quick Meaning
This verse ends festivals, new moons, sabbaths, and solemn assemblies as part of the threatened collapse.
Read It With
- Hosea 2:2-13
Read Hosea 2:11 with 2:2-13. This verse ends festivals, new moons, sabbaths, and solemn assemblies as part of the threatened collapse. The complete unit establishes this movement: The husband-speaker accuses the woman/Israel of pursuing providers called lovers and Baals, threatens stripping and deprivation, and reclaims grain, wine, wool, festivals, vines, and figs.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The lawsuit exposes misattributed provision and devotion, but its escalating threats also require the reader to distinguish prophetic rhetoric from a moral model for intimate relationships. Within that movement, this verse ends festivals, new moons, sabbaths, and solemn assemblies as part of the threatened collapse.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“mirth ... feast days”
In plain language: the communal celebrations and sacred times that cease
ends festivals, new moons, sabbaths, and solemn assemblies as part of the threatened collapse. Judgment dismantles communal time and worship, not merely private feeling.
Why it matters: The wording identifies this verse's distinct contribution to the complete unit.
How certain? strongWhat Remains True
Judgment dismantles communal time and worship, not merely private feeling.
How It Can Shape Life
- Recognize how conflict and displacement interrupt community calendars and access to worship.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Hosea 2:2-13 — The Marriage Lawsuit Threatens Exposure, Deprivation, and Lost CelebrationSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing Scripture wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Hosea 2:2-13, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Hosea
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew, morphology, syntax, names, wordplay, repetitions, and the base text for translation questions.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Hos.xml, 2:2-13
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Hosea with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level translation, textual, grammatical, historical, rhetorical, and uncertainty notes.
Exact location: NET Bible Hosea PDF, printed pp. 1673-1675, translation and notes on 2:2-13
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