The Meaning of Hosea 2:10 Explained

Hosea 2:10

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

YLT: And now do I reveal her dishonour before the eyes of her lovers, And none doth deliver her out of My hand.

Darby: And now will I discover her impiety in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.

ASV: And now will I uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Hosea 2:10 Mean?

Verse Meaning

He would also expose Israel to shame (Heb. nabluth, a withered state) in the sight of those with whom she had committed adultery. No one would be able or willing to save her from this punishment.

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 2:10 mean?

Now I will uncover - her lewdness in the sight of her lovers and no one shall deliver her from My hand
וְעַתָּ֛ה אֲגַלֶּ֥ה אֶת־ נַבְלֻתָ֖הּ לְעֵינֵ֣י מְאַהֲבֶ֑יהָ וְאִ֖ישׁ לֹֽא־ יַצִּילֶ֥נָּה מִיָּדִֽי

וְעַתָּ֛ה  Now 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Adverb
Root: עַתָּה  
Sense: now.
אֲגַלֶּ֥ה  I  will  uncover 
Parse: Verb, Piel, Imperfect, first person common singular
Root: גָּלָה  
Sense: to uncover, remove.
אֶת־  - 
Parse: Direct object marker
Root: אֹות 
Sense: sign of the definite direct object, not translated in English but generally preceding and indicating the accusative.
נַבְלֻתָ֖הּ  her  lewdness 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct, third person feminine singular
Root: נַבְלוּת  
Sense: immodesty, shamelessness, lewdness, pudenda (of female).
לְעֵינֵ֣י  in  the  sight 
Parse: Preposition-l, Noun, cdc
Root: עֹונָה 
Sense: eye.
מְאַהֲבֶ֑יהָ  of  her  lovers 
Parse: Verb, Piel, Participle, masculine plural construct, third person feminine singular
Root: אָהַב  
Sense: to love.
לֹֽא־  no  one 
Parse: Adverb, Negative particle
Root: הֲלֹא 
Sense: not, no.
יַצִּילֶ֥נָּה  shall  deliver  her 
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Imperfect, third person masculine singular, third person feminine singular
Root: נָצַל  
Sense: to snatch away, deliver, rescue, save, strip, plunder.
מִיָּדִֽי  from  My  hand 
Parse: Preposition-m, Noun, feminine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: יָד  
Sense: hand.