The Meaning of Hosea 2:11 Explained

Hosea 2:11

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

YLT: And I have caused to cease all her joy, Her festival, her new moon, and her sabbath, Even all her appointed times,

Darby: And I will cause all her mirth to cease: her feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths! and all her solemnities.

ASV: I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

I 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?

Verse Meaning

Yahweh would also put an end to all Israel"s happy yearly, monthly, and weekly celebrations. In the time of Jeroboam II the Sabbath was apparently a feast day (cf. Amos 8:5). Idolatry had so corrupted Israel"s sacred feasts that Yahweh no longer wanted His people to observe them.

Context Summary

Hosea 2:1-13 - The Bitter Sin Of Wandering From God
Hosea is represented as having exhausted his expostulations upon his faithless wife. He has tried every arrow in love's quiver, but in vain; so now he sends his children, worse than motherless, to plead with their mother, before she brings upon them all irretrievable retribution.
Almost insensibly our mind passes from the pleadings of the human love to the divine Bridegroom. Often He has to erect thorn hedges about us-not that He takes pleasure in thwarting us, but that we may be diverted from ruin. There was no better method of turning Israel from her idols than by withholding that material prosperity which she thought they gave. Has not this been our experience also? Our mirth has ceased and our prosperity has vanished. We have sat amid the wrecks of a happy past. It is not that God has ceased to care for us, but that He longs to wean us back to Himself. Have we reached the point of saying, "It was better with me then than now?" Then let us be of good cheer! The dawn is already on the hills, and God's coming to us, in restoring grace, is like the breaking glory of the morning! [source]

Chapter Summary: Hosea 2

1  The idolatry of the people
6  God's judgments against them
14  His promises of reconciliation with them

What do the individual words in Hosea 2:11 mean?

And I will cause to cease all her mirth Her feast [days] Her New Moons and Her Sabbaths and all her appointed feasts
וְהִשְׁבַּתִּי֙ כָּל־ מְשׂוֹשָׂ֔הּ חַגָּ֖הּ חָדְשָׁ֣הּ וְשַׁבַּתָּ֑הּ וְכֹ֖ל מוֹעֲדָֽהּ

וְהִשְׁבַּתִּי֙  And  I  will  cause  to  cease 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Hifil, Conjunctive perfect, first person common singular
Root: שָׁבַת 
Sense: to cease, desist, rest.
מְשׂוֹשָׂ֔הּ  her  mirth 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, third person feminine singular
Root: מָשֹׂושׂ 
Sense: exultation, joy, rejoicing.
חַגָּ֖הּ  Her  feast  [days] 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, third person feminine singular
Root: חַג  
Sense: festival, feast, festival-gathering, pilgrim-feast.
חָדְשָׁ֣הּ  Her  New  Moons 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, third person feminine singular
Root: חֹדֶשׁ  
Sense: the new moon, month, monthly.
וְשַׁבַּתָּ֑הּ  and  Her  Sabbaths 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, common singular construct, third person feminine singular
Root: שַׁבָּת  
Sense: Sabbath.
וְכֹ֖ל  and  all 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: כֹּל  
Sense: all, the whole.
מוֹעֲדָֽהּ  her  appointed  feasts 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, third person feminine singular
Root: מֹועֵד  
Sense: appointed place, appointed time, meeting.