Graphic Bible · Scene 5 of 25

Extreme wide dry landscape and cracked earth beneath stark light, empty old irrigation channel, no nude person or divine assailant. Interpret the verse’s explicit parched-land metaphor.
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Hosea 2:5

Like a Parched Land

A Door of Hope · Hosea 2

Story guide: Prophetic metaphor about the nation, not a narrated incident in Hosea and Gomer’s marriage.

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5or else I will strip her naked and expose her as on the day she was born, and make her like the wilderness, and make her like a parched land, and let her die of thirst.

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