Hosea 2:3

“Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, etc.] Alluding to the case of an infant when born, which comes naked into the world; and referring to the state and condition of the Israelites in Egypt, which was the time of their nativity, as a people and church; (see <261604> Ezekiel 16:4), and when they were in a state of servitude and bondage, and had no wealth and substance, and without possessions and lands, and had no country of their own to inhabit; and signifying that this should be their case again, if they persisted in their idolatry, impenitence, and unbelief; as has been the case of the ten tribes upon their captivity, when they were stripped of all their…”

“set her as in the day . . . born-- (Eze 16:4; Eze 23:25-26, Eze 23:28-29). The day of her political "birth" was when God delivered her from the bondage of Egypt, and set up the theocracy. make her as a wilderness-- (Jer 6:8; Zep 2:13). Translate, "make her as the wilderness," namely, that in which she passed forty years on her way to her goodly possession of Canaan. With this agrees the mention of "thirst" (compare Jer 2:6).”

“Lest I strip her naked - “There is an outward visible nakedness and an inward, which is invisible. The invisible nakedness is, when the soul within is bared of the glory and the grace of God.” The visible nakedness is the privation of God’s temporal and visible gifts, the goods of this world, or outward distinction. God’s inward gifts the sinful soul or nation despises, while those outward gifts she prizes. And therefore, when the soul parts with the inward ornaments of God’s grace, He strips her of the outward, His gifts of nature, of His providence and of His protection, if so be, through her outward misery and shame and poverty, she may come to feel that deeper misery and emptiness and…”

“Strip her - As was usually done by incensed husbands, divorcing impudent adulteresses. As a wilderness - Barren and desolate. Hosea 2:5”

“2:3 The Lord warns unfaithful Israel that unless she repents and returns to her covenant partner, he will strip her . . . naked (see also 2:10). Ezekiel also employs this image of judgment and shame (Ezek 16:36-37).”

“I strip: Hos 2:10; Isa 47:3; Jer 13:22, Jer 13:26; Eze 16:37-39, Eze 23:26-29; Rev 17:16 was born: Eze 16:4-8, Eze 16:22 as: Isa 32:13, Isa 32:14, Isa 33:9, Isa 64:10; Jer 2:31, Jer 4:26, Jer 12:10, Jer 22:6; Eze 19:13; Eze 20:35, Eze 20:36 a dry: Jer 2:6, Jer 17:6, Jer 51:43 and slay: Exo 17:3; Jdg 15:18; Amo 8:11-13 Hosea 2:4”