Hosea
Hosea 1
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD’s word 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.When the LORD spoke at first by Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of...
Hosea 2
Last Updated: October 10, 2026“Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’ and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’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;lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in...
Hosea 3
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The 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.”So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.I said...
Hosea 4
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Hear the LORD’s word, 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.There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone...
Hosea 5
Last Updated: October 10, 2026“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.The rebels are deep in slaughter, but I discipline all of them.I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from...
Hosea 6
Last Updated: October 10, 2026“Come! Let’s 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.After two days he will revive us. On the third day he will raise us up, and we will live before him.Let’s acknowledge the LORD. Let’s press...
Hosea 7
Last Updated: October 10, 2026When 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.They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my...
Hosea 8
Last Updated: October 10, 2026“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.They cry to me, ‘My God, we, Israel, acknowledge you!’Israel has cast off that which is good. The enemy will pursue him.They have set up kings, but not by me....
Hosea 9
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Don’t 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.The threshing floor and the wine press won’t feed them, and the new wine will fail her.They won’t dwell in the LORD’s land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt,...
Hosea 10
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Israel is a luxuriant vine that produces 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.Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones.Surely now they will...
Hosea 11
Last Updated: October 10, 2026“When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to engraved images.Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them by their arms, but they didn’t know that I healed them.I drew...
Hosea 12
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Ephraim 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.The LORD also has a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his deeds he will repay him.In the womb he took his...
Hosea 13
Last Updated: October 10, 2026When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, but when he became guilty through Baal, he died.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...
Hosea 14
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.Take words with you, and return to the LORD. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good; so we offer bulls as we vowed of our lips.Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will...