Hosea
Verses from the book of Hosea
Hosea 1:1
The word of the Lord that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
Read commentary →Hosea 1:2
When the Lord spoke at the first by Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, "Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking the Lord."
Read commentary →Hosea 1:3
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.
Read commentary →Hosea 1:4
The Lord said to him, "Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.
Read commentary →Hosea 1:5
It will happen in that day that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel."
Read commentary →Hosea 1:6
She conceived again, and bore a daughter. Then he said to him, "Call her name Lo-Ruhamah; for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them.
Read commentary →Hosea 1:7
But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen."
Read commentary →Hosea 1:9
He said, "Call his name Lo-Ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.
Read commentary →Hosea 1:10
Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can't be measured nor numbered; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.'
Read commentary →Hosea 1:11
The children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint themselves one head, and will go up from the land; for great will be the day of Jezreel.
Read commentary →Hosea 2:1
"Say to your brothers, 'My people!' and to your sisters, 'My loved one!'
Read commentary →Hosea 2:2
Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
Read commentary →Hosea 2:4
Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; for they are children of unfaithfulness;
Read commentary →Hosea 2:5
For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said, 'I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.'
Read commentary →Hosea 2:6
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can't find her way.
Read commentary →Hosea 2:7
She will follow after her lovers, but she won't overtake them; and she will seek them, but won't find them. Then she will say, 'I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.'
Read commentary →Hosea 2:8
For she did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
Read commentary →Hosea 2:9
Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.
Read commentary →Hosea 2:10
Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand.
Read commentary →Hosea 2:11
I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
Read commentary →Hosea 2:12
I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, 'These are my wages that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest,' and the animals of the field shall eat them.
Read commentary →Hosea 2:13
I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me," says the Lord.
Read commentary →Hosea 2:14
"Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.
Read commentary →Hosea 2:15
I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
Read commentary →Hosea 2:16
It will be in that day," says the Lord, "that you will call me 'my husband,' and no longer call me 'my master.'
Read commentary →Hosea 2:17
For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by name.
Read commentary →Hosea 2:18
In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, and will make them lie down safely.
Read commentary →Hosea 2:19
I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.
Read commentary →Hosea 2:20
I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know the Lord.
Read commentary →Hosea 2:21
It will happen in that day, I will respond," says the Lord, "I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth;
Read commentary →Hosea 2:23
I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, 'You are my people;' and they will say, 'My God!'"
Read commentary →Hosea 3:1
The Lord said to me, "Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins."
Read commentary →Hosea 3:2
So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.
Read commentary →Hosea 3:4
For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.
Read commentary →Hosea 4:1
Hear the word of the Lord, you children of Israel; for the Lord has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
Read commentary →Hosea 4:2
There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.
Read commentary →Hosea 4:3
Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells therein will waste away, all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of the sea also die.
Read commentary →Hosea 4:4
"Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; For your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.
Read commentary →Hosea 4:5
You will stumble in the day, and the prophet will also stumble with you in the night; and I will destroy your mother.
Read commentary →Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God's law, I will also forget your children.
Read commentary →Hosea 4:7
As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.
Read commentary →Hosea 4:8
They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.
Read commentary →Hosea 4:9
It will be, like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will repay them for their deeds.
Read commentary →Hosea 4:10
They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned giving to the Lord.
Read commentary →Hosea 4:12
My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God.
Read commentary →Hosea 4:13
They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because its shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the prostitute, and your brides commit adultery.
Read commentary →Hosea 4:14
I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin.
Read commentary →Hosea 4:15
"Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, yet do not let Judah offend; and do not come to Gilgal, neither go up to Beth Aven, nor swear, 'As the Lord lives.'
Read commentary →Hosea 4:16
For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will the Lord feed them like a lamb in a meadow.
Read commentary →Hosea 4:18
Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.
Read commentary →Hosea 4:19
The wind has wrapped her up in its wings; and they shall be disappointed because of their sacrifices.
Read commentary →Hosea 5:1
"Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.
Read commentary →Hosea 5:3
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled.
Read commentary →Hosea 5:4
Their deeds won't allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the Lord.
Read commentary →Hosea 5:5
The pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them.
Read commentary →Hosea 5:6
They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the Lord; but they won't find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.
Read commentary →Hosea 5:7
They are unfaithful to the Lord; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.
Read commentary →Hosea 5:8
"Blow the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah! Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven, behind you, Benjamin!
Read commentary →Hosea 5:9
Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.
Read commentary →Hosea 5:10
The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water.
Read commentary →Hosea 5:11
Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.
Read commentary →Hosea 5:12
Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness.
Read commentary →Hosea 5:13
"When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.
Read commentary →Hosea 5:14
For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.
Read commentary →Hosea 5:15
I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly."
Read commentary →Hosea 6:1
"Come, and let us return to the Lord; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.
Read commentary →Hosea 6:2
After two days he will revive us. On the third day he will raise us up, and we will live before him.
Read commentary →Hosea 6:3
Let us acknowledge the Lord. Let us press on to know the Lord. As surely as the sun rises, The Lord will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth."
Read commentary →Hosea 6:4
"Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early.
Read commentary →Hosea 6:5
Therefore I have cut them to pieces with the prophets; I killed them with the words of my mouth. Your judgments are like a flash of lightning.
Read commentary →Hosea 6:6
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Read commentary →Hosea 6:7
But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.
Read commentary →Hosea 6:9
As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes.
Read commentary →Hosea 6:10
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Ephraim. Israel is defiled.
Read commentary →Hosea 6:11
"Also, Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you, when I restore the fortunes of my people.
Read commentary →Hosea 7:1
When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, also the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the gang of robbers ravages outside.
Read commentary →Hosea 7:2
They do not consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.
Read commentary →Hosea 7:3
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
Read commentary →Hosea 7:4
They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.
Read commentary →Hosea 7:5
On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.
Read commentary →Hosea 7:6
For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.
Read commentary →Hosea 7:7
They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me.
Read commentary →Hosea 7:8
Ephraim, he mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.
Read commentary →Hosea 7:9
Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn't realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn't realize it.
Read commentary →Hosea 7:10
The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they haven't returned to the Lord their God, nor sought him, for all this.
Read commentary →Hosea 7:11
"Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.
Read commentary →Hosea 7:12
When they go, I will spread my net on them. I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.
Read commentary →Hosea 7:13
Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
Read commentary →Hosea 7:14
They haven't cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.
Read commentary →Hosea 7:15
Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet they plot evil against me.
Read commentary →Hosea 7:16
They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.
Read commentary →Hosea 8:1
"Put the trumpet to your lips! Something like an eagle is over the Lord's house, because they have broken my covenant, and rebelled against my law.
Read commentary →Hosea 8:4
They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I did not approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off.
Read commentary →Hosea 8:5
Let Samaria throw out his calf idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be until they are capable of purity?
Read commentary →Hosea 8:7
For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
Read commentary →Hosea 8:8
Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.
Read commentary →Hosea 8:9
For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.
Read commentary →Hosea 8:10
But although they sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them; and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.
Read commentary →Hosea 8:11
Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they became for him altars for sinning.
Read commentary →Hosea 8:12
I wrote for him the many things of my law; but they were regarded as a strange thing.
Read commentary →Hosea 8:13
As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; But the Lord doesn't accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.
Read commentary →Hosea 8:14
For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses."
Read commentary →Hosea 9:1
Do not rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.
Read commentary →Hosea 9:2
The threshing floor and the winepress won't feed them, and the new wine will fail her.
Read commentary →Hosea 9:3
They won't dwell in the Lord's land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
Read commentary →Hosea 9:4
They won't pour out wine offerings to the Lord, neither will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat of it will be polluted; for their bread will be for their appetite. It will not come into the house of the Lord.
Read commentary →Hosea 9:5
What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of the Lord?
Read commentary →Hosea 9:7
The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.
Read commentary →Hosea 9:8
A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler's snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.
Read commentary →Hosea 9:9
They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins.
Read commentary →Hosea 9:10
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.
Read commentary →Hosea 9:11
As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, none with child, and no conception.
Read commentary →Hosea 9:12
Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!
Read commentary →Hosea 9:14
Give them-Lord what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Read commentary →Hosea 9:15
"All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house! I will love them no more. All their princes are rebels.
Read commentary →Hosea 9:16
Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they bring forth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb."
Read commentary →Hosea 9:17
My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; and they will be wanderers among the nations.
Read commentary →Hosea 2:3
Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.
Read commentary →Hosea 2:22
and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; and they will respond to Jezreel.
Read commentary →Hosea 3:3
I said to her, "You shall stay with me many days. You shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man. I will also be so toward you."
Read commentary →Hosea 3:5
Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to the Lord and to his blessings in the last days.
Read commentary →Hosea 8:6
For this is even from Israel! The workman made it, and it is no God; indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
Read commentary →Hosea 9:6
For, behold, they have gone away from destruction. Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents.
Read commentary →Hosea 9:13
I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.
Read commentary →Hosea 10:1
Israel is a luxuriant vine that puts forth his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones.
Read commentary →Hosea 10:2
Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones.
Read commentary →Hosea 10:3
Surely now they will say, "We have no king; for we do not fear the Lord; and the king, what can he do for us?"
Read commentary →Hosea 10:4
They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
Read commentary →Hosea 10:5
The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the calves of Beth Aven; for its people will mourn over it, Along with its priests who rejoiced over it, for its glory, because it has departed from it.
Read commentary →Hosea 10:6
It also will be carried to Assyria for a present to a great king. Ephraim will receive shame, and Israel will be ashamed of his own counsel.
Read commentary →Hosea 10:8
The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle will come up on their altars. They will tell the mountains, "Cover us!" and the hills, "Fall on us!"
Read commentary →Hosea 10:9
"Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah. There they remained. The battle against the children of iniquity doesn't overtake them in Gibeah.
Read commentary →Hosea 10:10
When it is my desire, I will chastise them; and the nations will be gathered against them, when they are bound to their two transgressions.
Read commentary →Hosea 10:11
Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; so I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck. I will set a rider on Ephraim. Judah will plow. Jacob will break his clods.
Read commentary →Hosea 10:12
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.
Read commentary →Hosea 10:13
You have plowed wickedness. You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, for you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.
Read commentary →Hosea 10:14
Therefore a battle roar will arise among your people, and all your fortresses will be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel in the day of battle. The mother was dashed in pieces with her children.
Read commentary →Hosea 10:15
So Bethel will do to you because of your great wickedness. At daybreak the king of Israel will be destroyed.
Read commentary →Hosea 11:1
"When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.
Read commentary →Hosea 11:2
They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to engraved images.
Read commentary →Hosea 11:3
Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them by his arms; but they did not know that I healed them.
Read commentary →Hosea 11:4
I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love; and I was to them like those who lift up the yoke on their necks; and I bent down to him and I fed him.
Read commentary →Hosea 11:5
"They won't return into the land of Egypt; but the Assyrian will be their king, because they refused to repent.
Read commentary →Hosea 11:6
The sword will fall on their cities, and will destroy the bars of their gates, and will put an end to their plans.
Read commentary →Hosea 11:7
My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won't exalt them.
Read commentary →Hosea 11:8
"How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.
Read commentary →Hosea 11:9
I will not execute the fierceness of my anger. I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of you; and I will not come in wrath.
Read commentary →Hosea 11:10
They will walk after the Lord, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.
Read commentary →Hosea 11:11
They will come trembling like a bird out of Egypt, and like a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will settle them in their houses," says the Lord.
Read commentary →Hosea 11:12
Ephraim surrounds me with falsehood, and the house of Israel with deceit. Judah still strays from God, and is unfaithful to the Holy One.
Read commentary →Hosea 12:1
Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.
Read commentary →Hosea 12:2
The Lord also has a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his deeds he will repay him.
Read commentary →Hosea 12:3
In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his manhood he contended with God.
Read commentary →Hosea 12:4
Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us,
Read commentary →Hosea 12:6
Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.
Read commentary →Hosea 12:8
Ephraim said, "Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won't find in me any iniquity that is sin."
Read commentary →Hosea 12:9
"But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt. I will yet again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feast.
Read commentary →Hosea 12:10
I have also spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.
Read commentary →Hosea 12:11
If Gilead is wicked, surely they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls. Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field.
Read commentary →Hosea 12:12
Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.
Read commentary →Hosea 12:13
By a prophet the Lord brought Israel up out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.
Read commentary →Hosea 12:14
Ephraim has bitterly provoked anger. Therefore his blood will be left on him, and his Lord will repay his contempt.
Read commentary →Hosea 13:1
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, but when he became guilty in Baal, he died.
Read commentary →Hosea 13:2
Now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, 'They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves.'
Read commentary →Hosea 13:3
Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.
Read commentary →Hosea 13:4
"Yet I am the Lord your God [that establishes the heaven, and creates the earth, whose hands have framed the whole host of heaven. But I did not show them to you that you should go after them, but I brought you up] from the land of Egypt; and you shall acknowledge no god but me, and besides me there is no savior.
Read commentary →Hosea 13:6
According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.
Read commentary →Hosea 13:7
Therefore I am like a lion to them. Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path.
Read commentary →Hosea 13:8
I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart. There I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them.
Read commentary →Hosea 13:9
You are destroyed, Israel, because you are against me, against your help.
Read commentary →Hosea 13:10
Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities? And your judges, of whom you said, 'Give me a king and princes?'
Read commentary →Hosea 13:11
I have given you a king in my anger, and have taken him away in my wrath.
Read commentary →Hosea 13:13
The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on him. He is an unwise son; for when it is time, he doesn't come to the opening of the womb.
Read commentary →Hosea 13:14
I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your sting? "Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.
Read commentary →Hosea 13:15
Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come, the breath of the Lord coming up from the wilderness; and his spring will become dry, and his fountain will be dried up. He will plunder the storehouse of treasure.
Read commentary →Hosea 13:16
Samaria will bear her guilt; for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open."
Read commentary →Hosea 14:1
Israel, return to the Lord your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.
Read commentary →Hosea 14:2
Take words with you, and return to the Lord. Tell him, "Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls.
Read commentary →Hosea 14:3
Assyria can't save us. We won't ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, 'Our gods!' for in you the fatherless finds mercy."
Read commentary →Hosea 14:4
"I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.
Read commentary →Hosea 14:5
I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.
Read commentary →Hosea 14:6
His branches will spread, and his beauty will be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like Lebanon.
Read commentary →Hosea 14:7
Men will dwell in his shade. They will revive like the grain, and blossom like the vine. Their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.
Read commentary →Hosea 14:8
Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green fir tree; from me your fruit is found."
Read commentary →Hosea 14:9
Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of the Lord are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.
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