Hosea 2:3
Otherwise, I will strip her naked
What it says
If she refuses, the LORD will strip her bare and make her like a wilderness and a dry land.
What it is doing
This verse threatens exposure and desolation as judgment for adultery.
In context
1“Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ 2Rebuke your mother, 3Otherwise, I will strip her naked 4I will have no compassion on her children, 5For their mother has played the harlot 6Therefore, behold, 7She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; 8For she does not acknowledge 9Therefore I will take back My grain in its time 10And then I will expose her lewdness 11I will put an end to all her exultation: 12I will destroy her vines and fig trees, 13I will punish her for the days of the Baals