Bible Strands
Hosea 2:11
I will put an end to all her exultation: her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—all her appointed feasts.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Yahweh addresses apostate Israel immediately after revealing her spiritual adultery to foreign alliances. The declaration interrupts her religious calendar to mark the precise moment divine protection is withdrawn.
The words — The Hebrew verb וְהִשְׁבַּתִּי (ve-hishbatTi) literally means "and I will cause to cease," while מְשׂוֹשָׂהּ (mesosah) denotes "her exultation" or "her gaiety." These terms frame the termination of Israel's self-directed religious celebration.
The thread — The rejection of New Moons, Sabbaths, and feasts appears in Isaiah 1:13 and Amos 5:21, where Yahweh condemns ritual observance divorced from covenant loyalty. Amos 8:5 further records how commercial greed reduced these appointed times to mere inconveniences.
Why it lands — The text demands acknowledgment that ritual observance loses its standing when practiced alongside idolatry or self-reliance. It requires readers to separate worship from transactional motives and recognize that ceremonial performance cannot sustain divine favor.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
Cross-references
- Isaiah 1:13 Bring your worthless offerings no more; your incense is detestable to Me. New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations—I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly.
- Amos 5:21 “I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
- Amos 8:5 asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.
- Jeremiah 7:34 I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.”
- Jeremiah 16:9 For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your days, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom.
- Revelation 18:22 And the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will never ring out in you again. Nor will any craftsmen of any trade be found in you again, nor the sound of a millstone be heard in you again.
- 1 Kings 12:32 And Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had set up, and he installed priests in Bethel for the high places he had set up.
- Isaiah 24:7 The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
- Jeremiah 25:10 Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.
- Ezekiel 26:13 So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the music of your lyres will no longer be heard.