Hosea 2:12

2:12 I will destroy her vines and fig trees,

about which she said, “These are my wages for prostitution ¹ 

that my lovers gave to me!”

I will turn her cultivated vines and fig trees ²  into an uncultivated thicket,

so that wild animals ³  will devour them.

Hosea 4:3

4:3 Therefore the land will mourn,

and all its inhabitants will perish. ⁴ 

The wild animals, ⁵  the birds of the sky,

and even the fish in the sea will perish.

[2:12]  ¹ tn Heb “my wages.” The words “for prostitution” are not in the Hebrew text but are supplied for clarity; cf. CEV “gave…as payment for sex.”

[2:12]  ² tn Heb “I will turn them”; the referents (vines and fig trees) have been specified in the translation for clarity.

[2:12]  ³ tn Heb “the beasts of the field” (so KJV, NASB); the same expression also occurs in v. 18).

[4:3]  ⁴ tn Or “languish” (so KJV, NRSV); NIV “waste away.”

[4:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “the beasts of the field” (so NAB, NIV).