Hosea 2 · Verse 11

Hosea 2:11

I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
Hosea 2:11, King James Version

Hosea 2:11 in other translations

BSBI will put an end to all her exultation: her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths— all her appointed feasts.
WEBI will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
ASVI will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
YLTAnd I have caused to cease all her joy, Her festival, her new moon, and her sabbath, Even all her appointed times,
DARBYAnd I will cause all her mirth to cease: her feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths! and all her solemnities.
BBEAnd I will put an end to all her joy, her feasts, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her regular meetings.
WebsterI will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.

What does Hosea 2:11 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
11. her feast days--of Jeroboam's appointment, distinct from the Mosaic (1Ki 12:32). However, most of the Mosaic feasts, "new-moons" and "sabbaths" to Jehovah, remained, but to degenerate Israel worship was a weariness; they cared only for the carnal indulgence on them (Am 8:5).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 11 Her feast days - Jerusalem shall be pillaged and destroyed; and therefore all her joyous assemblies, and religious feasts, etc., shall cease.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Hosea 2:6-13

God threatens what he would do with this treacherous, idolatrous people. They did not turn, therefore all this came upon them; and it is written for admonition to us. If lesser difficulties be got over, God will raise greater. The most resolute in sinful pursuits, are commonly most crossed in them. The way of God and duty is often hedged about with thorns, but we have reason to think it is a sinful way that is…

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Hosea 2:11 in the original Hebrew

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וְהִשְׁבַּתִּי֙ve.hish.ba.Tiand I will put an end toH7673
כָּל\־kol-allH3605
מְשׂוֹשָׂ֔הּme.so.Sahgaiety herH4885
חַגָּ֖הּcha.Gahfestival[s] herH2282
חָדְשָׁ֣הּcha.de.Shahnew moon[s] herH2320
וְשַׁבַּתָּ֑הּve.shab.ba.Tahand sabbath[s] herH7676
וְכֹ֖לve.Kholand everyH3605
מוֹעֲדָֽהּ\׃mo.'a.Dahappointed feast herH4150

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Cross references for Hosea 2:11

  • Isaiah 1:13-14

    Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.

  • Amos 5:21

    I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

  • Amos 8:5

    Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?

  • Jeremiah 7:34

    Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.

  • Jeremiah 16:9

    For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.

  • Revelation 18:22-23

    And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.

  • Isaiah 24:7-11

    The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh. The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in. …

  • 1 Kings 12:32

    And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Beth–el, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Beth–el the priests of the high places which he had made.

  • Amos 8:3

    And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.

  • Jeremiah 25:10

    Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.

  • Ezekiel 26:13

    And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.

  • Amos 8:9-10

    And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day: And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
cause.
9:1-5; Isa 24:7-11; Jer 7:34; 16:9; 25:10; Eze 26:13; Na 1:10
Re 18:22,23
her feast.
1Ki 12:32; Isa 1:13,14; Am 5:21; 8:3,5,9,10

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Context

  • Hosea 2:10

    And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.

  • Hosea 2:11

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

  • Hosea 2:12

    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.

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Hosea 2:11 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y haré cesar todo su gozo, sus fiestas, sus nuevas lunas y sus sábados, y todas sus festividades.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
C’est pourquoi je reprendrai mon blé en son temps, et mon moût en sa saison; et j’ôterai ma laine et mon lin, qui devaient couvrir sa nudité.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und ich werde all ihrer Freude, ihren Festen, ihren Neumonden und ihren Sabbathen und allen ihren Festzeiten ein Ende machen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
et cessare faciam omne gaudium ejus, solemnitatem ejus, neomeniam ejus, sabbatum ejus, et omnia festa tempora ejus.