Most Popular Bible Verses in Hosea
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Because you have rejected knowledge,
I will reject you
Since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I will also forget your sons.
and out of Egypt I called My son.
When the Lord first spoke to Hosea, He said this to him:
and have children of promiscuity,
for the land is committing blatant acts of promiscuity
by abandoning the Lord.
the knowledge of God
Then the Lord said to him:
I will bring the bloodshed of Jezreel
on the house of Jehu
and put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
the prophet will also stumble with you by night.
And I will destroy your mother.
and expose her as she was on the day of her birth.
I will make her like a desert
and like a parched land,
and I will let her die of thirst.
She conceived again and gave birth to a daughter, and the Lord said to him:
for I will no longer have compassion
on the house of Israel.
I will certainly take them away.
for the Lord has a case
against the inhabitants of the land:
There is no truth,
and no knowledge of God
For He has torn us,
and He will heal us;
He has wounded us,
and He will bind up our wounds.
and I will deliver them by the Lord their God.
I will not deliver them by bow, sword, or war,
or by horses and cavalry.
will be gathered together.
They will appoint for themselves a single ruler
and go up from
For the day of Jezreel
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there they have betrayed Me.
Then the Lord said:
for you are not My people,
and I will not be your God.
the house of Israel, with deceit.
Judah still wanders with God
and is faithful to the holy ones.
like grapes in the wilderness.
I saw your fathers
like the first fruit of the fig tree in its first season.
But they went to Baal-peor,
consecrated themselves to Shame,
and became detestable,
like the thing they loved.
Ephraim is unturned bread baked on a griddle.
because they are the children of promiscuity.
that loves to thresh,
but I will place a yoke on
I will harness Ephraim;
Judah will plow;
Jacob will do the final plowing.
to seek the Lord
but do not find Him;
He has withdrawn from them.
no birth, no gestation, no conception.
and Israel was tended by a prophet.
like a wild donkey going off on its own.
Ephraim has paid for love.
the more they sinned against Me.
I
she conceived them and acted shamefully.
For she thought, “I will go after my lovers,
the men who give me my food and water,
my wool and flax, my oil and drink.”
an east wind will come,
a wind from the Lord rising up from the desert.
His water source will fail,
and his spring will run dry.
The wind
of every precious item.
a band of priests murders on the road to Shechem.
They commit atrocities.
I will block her
I will enclose her with a wall,
so that she cannot find her paths.
Afterward, the people of Israel will return
but he does not notice.
Even his hair is streaked with gray,
but he does not notice.
so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him
and repay him for his contempt.
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indeed, they gave birth to illegitimate children.
Now the New Moon
along with their fields.
Ephraim’s promiscuity is there;
they became his altars for sinning.
I will bereave them of each one.
Yes, woe to them when I depart from them!
I will now round them up,
and they will begin to decrease in number
under the burden of the king and leaders.
to both people and priests.
I will punish them for their ways
and repay them for their deeds.
the trumpet in Ramah;
raise the war cry in Beth-aven:
After you, Benjamin!
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that it is I who gave her the grain,
the new wine, and the oil.
I lavished silver and gold on her,
which they used for Baal.
and they burn offerings on the hills,
and under oaks, poplars, and terebinths,
because their shade is pleasant.
And so your daughters act promiscuously
and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.
you have eaten the fruit of lies.
Because you have trusted in your own way
and in your large number of soldiers,
I will bring them down like birds of the sky.
I will discipline them in accordance
with the news that reaches
and My new wine in its season;
I will take away My wool and linen,
which were to cover her nakedness.
she will seek them but not find them.
Then she will think,
“I will go back to my former husband,
for then it was better for me than now.”
and all your fortifications will be demolished
in a day of war,
like Shalman’s destruction of Beth-arbel.
Mothers will be dashed to pieces
along with their children.
with dishonest scales in his hands.
for there I came to hate them.
I will drive them from My house
because of their evil, wicked actions.
I will no longer love them;
all their leaders are rebellious.
destruction to them, for they rebelled against Me!
Though I want to redeem them,
they speak lies against Me.
and your sisters: Compassion.
they will be promiscuous
For they have abandoned their devotion to the Lord.
because of your extreme evil.
At dawn the king of Israel will be totally destroyed.
For she is not My wife and I am not her husband.
Let her remove the promiscuous look from her face
and her adultery from between her breasts.
in the sight of her lovers,
and no one will rescue her from My hands.
when she burned incense to them,
put on her rings and jewelry,
and went after her lovers,
but forgot Me.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
over the calf
Indeed, its idolatrous priests rejoiced over it;
the people will mourn over it,
over its glory.
It will certainly depart from them.
their roots are withered;
they cannot bear fruit.
Even if they bear children,
I will kill the precious offspring of their wombs.
She thinks that these are her wages
that her lovers have given her.
I will turn them into a thicket,
and the wild animals will eat them.
her feasts,
all her festivals.
yet they do not return to Yahweh their God,
and for all this, they do not seek Him.
Judah has also multiplied fortified cities.
I will send fire on their cities,
and it will consume their citadels.
on the day of punishment;
I announce what is certain
among the tribes of Israel.
when they act promiscuously
or your daughters-in-law
when they commit adultery,
for the men themselves go off with prostitutes
and make sacrifices with cult prostitutes.
People without discernment are doomed.
and their divining rods inform them.
For a spirit of promiscuity leads them astray;
they act promiscuously
in disobedience to
because they have not listened to Him;
they will become wanderers among the nations.
ten thousand points of My instruction,
they would be
and make the Valley of Achor
into a gateway of hope.
There she will respond as she did
in the days of her youth,
as in the day she came out of the land of Egypt.
and I will have compassion
on No Compassion;
I will say
You are My people,
and he will say, “You are My God.”
with the wild animals, the birds of the sky,
and the creatures that crawl on the ground.
I will shatter bow, sword,
and weapons of war in the land
and will enable the people to rest securely.
it yields fruit for itself.
The more his fruit increased,
the more he increased the altars.
The better his land produced,
the better they made the sacred pillars.
How can I surrender you, Israel?
How can I make you like Admah?
How can I treat you like Zeboiim?
I have had a change of heart;
My compassion is stirred!
don’t let Judah become guilty!
Do not go to Gilgal
or make a pilgrimage to Beth-aven,
and do not swear an oath: As the Lord lives!
they turn to promiscuity.
Israel’s leaders
“We have no king!
For we do not fear the Lord.
What can a king do for us?”
who move boundary markers;
I will pour out My fury
I will not turn back to destroy Ephraim.
For I am God and not man,
the Holy One among you;
I will not come in rage.
with ropes of love.
To them I was like one
who eases the yoke from their jaws;
I bent down to give them food.
and pursues the east wind.
He continually multiplies lies and violence.
He makes a covenant with Assyria,
and olive oil is carried to Egypt.
until they recognize their guilt and seek My face;
they will search for Me in their distress.
this is the Lord’s declaration.
I will respond to the sky,
and it will respond to the earth.
and eat the flesh,
the Lord does not accept them.
Now He will remember their guilt
and punish their sins;
they will return to Egypt.
they call to Egypt,
leave him alone!
for he is determined to follow what is worthless.
from her mouth;
they will no longer be remembered by their names.
planted in a meadow,
so Ephraim will bring out his children
to the executioner.
and adultery
one act of bloodshed follows another.
he wept and sought His favor.
He found him
and there He spoke with him.
and granted many visions;
I gave parables through the prophets.
will be destroyed;
thorns and thistles will grow over their altars.
They will say to the mountains,
and to the hills, “Fall on us!”
rather, they wail on their beds.
They slash themselves
they turn away from Me.
Can the Lord now shepherd them
like a lamb in an open meadow?
and you will know Yahweh.
He is about to punish Jacob according to his ways;
He will repay him based on his actions.
He will roar like a lion.
When He roars,
His children will come trembling from the west.
Maintain love and justice,
and always put your hope in God.
and reap the whirlwind.
There is no standing grain;
what sprouts fails to yield flour.
Even if they did,
foreigners would swallow it up.
the new wine, and the oil,
and they will respond to Jezreel.
and Judah his wound,
Ephraim went to Assyria
and sent a delegation to the great king.
But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.
One like an eagle comes
against the house of the Lord,
because they transgress My covenant
and rebel against My law.
Israel worked to earn a wife;
he tended flocks for a wife.
Though they call to Him on high,
He will not exalt them at all.
What should You give?
Give them a womb that miscarries
and breasts that are dry!
now they must bear their guilt.
The Lord will break down their altars
and demolish their sacred pillars.
So he went and married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
the more they
They kept sacrificing to the Baals
and burning offerings to idols.
and like doves
Then I will settle them in their homes.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
they will certainly come to nothing.
They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal;
even their altars will be like heaps of rocks
on the furrows of a field.
and everyone who lives in it languishes,
along with the wild animals
even the fish of the sea disappear.
since the days of Gibeah;
they have taken their stand there.
Will not war against the unjust
overtake them in Gibeah?
taking them
but they never knew that I healed them.
ever since
I will make you live in tents again,
as in the festival days.
“How rich I have become;
I made it all myself.
In all my earnings,
no one can find any crime in me
that I can be punished for!”
taking false oaths while making covenants.
So lawsuits break out
like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.
What am I going to do with you, Judah?
Your loyalty is like the morning mist
and like the early dew that vanishes.
and like a young lion to the house of Judah.
Yes, I will tear them to pieces and depart.
I will carry them off,
and no one can rescue them.
and Assyria will be his king,
because they refused to repent.
as an offering to the great king.
Ephraim will experience shame;
Israel will be ashamed of its counsel.
Pay attention, house of Israel!
Listen, royal house!
For the judgment applies to you
because you have been a snare at Mizpah
and a net spread out on Tabor.
it will destroy and devour the bars of his gates,
because of their schemes.
and they will be ashamed of their sacrifices.
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I will redeem
Death, where are your barbs?
Sheol, where is your sting?
Compassion is hidden from My eyes.
nations will be gathered against them
to put them in bondage
for their two crimes.
So I bought her for 15 shekels of silver and five bushels of barley.
I said to her, “You must live with me many days. Don’t be promiscuous or belong to any man, and I will act the same way toward you.”
to cut them down;
I have killed them with the words of My mouth.
My judgment strikes like lightning.
The word of the Lord that came to Hosea son of Beeri during the reigns of Uzziah,
for you have acted promiscuously,
You have loved the wages of a prostitute
on every grain-threshing floor.
but not through Me.
They have appointed leaders,
but without My approval.
They make their silver and gold
into idols for themselves
for their own destruction.
but they plot evil against Me.
the sins of Ephraim
will be exposed.
For they practice fraud;
a thief breaks in;
a raiding party pillages outside.
His appearance is as sure as the dawn.
He will come to us like the rain,
like the spring showers that water the land.
Both Israel and Ephraim stumble
because of their wickedness;
even Judah will stumble with them.
My anger burns against them.
How long will they be incapable of innocence?
they are like a faulty bow.
Their leaders will fall by the sword
because of the cursing of their tongue.
They will be ridiculed for this in the land of Egypt.
to return to their God,
for a spirit of promiscuity is among them,
and they do not know the Lord.
I will freely love them,
for My anger will have turned from him.
and Israel is not hidden from Me.
For now, Ephraim,
you have acted promiscuously;
Israel is defiled.
they are like an oven heated by a baker
who stops stirring the fire
from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
the days of retribution have come.
Let Israel recognize it!
The prophet is a fool,
and the inspired man is insane,
because of the magnitude
of your guilt and hostility.
will be like the sand of the sea,
which cannot be measured or counted.
And in the place where they were told:
You are not My people,
they will be called: Sons of the living God.
a craftsman made it,
The calf of Samaria will be smashed to bits!
and reap faithful love;
break up your unplowed ground.
It is time to seek the Lord
until He comes
on you like the rain.
and return to the Lord.
Say to Him: “Forgive all our sin
and accept what is good,
so that we may repay You
with praise
the princes are sick with the heat of wine
there is a conspiracy with traitors.
and they consume their rulers.
All their kings fall;
not one of them calls on Me.
Now their sins are all around them;
they are right in front of My face.
draw him into their oven.
Their anger smolders all night;
in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
as in the days of Gibeah.
He will remember their guilt;
He will punish their sins.
ever since
you know no God but Me,
and no Savior exists besides Me.
and on the third day He will raise us up
so we can live in His presence.
Instead, Ephraim will return to Egypt,
and they will eat unclean food
For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince,
Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them.
Thistles will take possession of their precious silver;
thorns will invade their tents.
The prophet encounters a fowler’s snare
on all his ways.
Hostility is in the house of his God!
and the new wine will fail them.
their wine offerings to the Lord,
and their sacrifices will not please Him.
Their food will be like the bread of mourners;
all who eat it become defiled.
For their bread will be for their appetites alone;
it will not enter the house of the Lord.
and whoever is insightful recognize them.
For the ways of the Lord are right,
and the righteous walk in them,
but the rebellious stumble in them.
he will blossom like the lily
and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.
lead her to the wilderness,
and speak tenderly to her.
because she has rebelled against her God.
They will fall by the sword;
their little ones will be dashed to pieces,
and their pregnant women ripped open.
to do with idols?
It is I who answer and watch over him.
I am like a flourishing pine tree;
your fruit comes from Me.
I will take you to be My wife in righteousness,
justice, love, and compassion.
like a bear robbed of her cubs
and tear open the rib cage over their hearts.
I will devour them there like a lioness,
like a wild beast that would rip them open.
this is the Lord’s declaration—
you will call Me, “My husband,”
and no longer call Me, “My Baal.”
we will not ride on horses,
and we will no longer proclaim, ‘Our gods!’
to the work of our hands.
For the fatherless receives compassion in You.”
Then the Lord said to me, “Go again; show love to a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress,
he was exalted in Israel.
But he incurred guilt through Baal
and his splendor will be like the olive tree,
his fragrance, like the forest of Lebanon.
and make themselves a cast image,
idols skillfully made from their silver,
all of them the work of craftsmen.
People say about them,
“Let the men who sacrifice
They will grow grain
and blossom like the vine.
His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.
like the early dew that vanishes,
like chaff blown from a threshing floor,
or like smoke from a window.
and take away a king in My wrath.
they became satisfied;
they were satisfied,
and their hearts became proud.
Therefore they forgot Me.
He is not a wise son;
when the time comes,
he will not be born.
in the land of drought.
that he may save you in all your cities,
and the
“Give me a king and leaders”?
his sin is stored up.