Hosea 2:13 (DRB)

Passage

And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, to whom she burnt incense, and decked herself out with her earrings, and with her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith the Lord.

Nearby Context

Hosea 2:11 And I will cause all her mirth to cease, her solemnities, her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her festival times.

Hosea 2:12 And I will destroy her vines, and her fig trees, of which she said: These are my rewards, which my lovers have given me: and I will make her as a forest and the beasts of the field shall devour her.

Hosea 2:13 And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, to whom she burnt incense, and decked herself out with her earrings, and with her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith the Lord.

Hosea 2:14 Therefore, behold I will allure her, and will lead her into the wilderness: and I will speak to her heart.

Hosea 2:15 And I will give her vinedressers out of the same place, and the valley of Achor for an opening of hope: and she shall sing there according to the days of her youth, and according to the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "visit", "upon", "days", "baalim", "burnt", "incense", "decked", and "herself". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "visit" and "upon", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 12's "And I will destroy her vines and..." into verse 14's "Therefore behold I will allure her and...", so "visit" and "upon" belong inside that flow. In Hosea context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "visit" and "upon" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.