Hosea
Chapter 1
1: The word of the LORD that came unto 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.
2: The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the ......More in This Hosea Book
Hosea
Chapter 2
1: Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
2: Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
3: Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and s ......More in This Hosea Book
Hosea
Chapter 3
1: Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look toother gods, and love flagons of wine.
2: So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
3: And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide ......More in This Hosea Book
Hosea
Chapter 4
1: Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2: By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, theybreak out, and blood toucheth blood.
3: Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one t ......More in This Hosea Book
Hosea
Chapter 5
1: Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
2: And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.
3: I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, ......More in This Hosea Book
Hosea
Chapter 6
1: Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
Mt 9:12
2: After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
3: Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is pre ......More in This Hosea Book
Hosea
Chapter 7
1: When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and thewickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, andthe troop of robbers spoileth without.
Mt 9:12
2: And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my f ......More in This Hosea Book
Hosea
Chapter 8
1: Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
2: Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.
3: Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.
4: They have set up kings, b ......More in This Hosea Book
Hosea
Chapter 9
1: Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God,thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
2: The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
3: They shall not dwell in the LORD's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
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Hosea
Chapter 10
1: Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.
2: Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
3: For now they shall say, We have ......More in This Hosea Book
