Hosea 10:12 Sow for yourselves righteousness;     reap steadfast love;     break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the Lord,     that he may come and rain righteousness upon you. We apologize that this recording is incomplete and is missing the beginning. However, we still believe that it is important for you to […]

Hosea 14:1-9 Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,     for you have stumbled because of your iniquity. 2 Take with you words     and return to the Lord; say to him,     “Take away all iniquity; accept what is good,     and we will pay with bulls     the vows of our lips. 3 Assyria shall not save us;     we […]

Hosea 4:1-2, 4, 6, 9-11, 14; 5:4, 15; 6:1-6 (ESV) 4 Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel,     for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love,     and no knowledge of God in the land; 2 there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing […]

3 And the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.” 2 So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a […]

Hosea 2:14-23 English Standard Version (ESV) 14 “Therefore, behold, I will allure her,     and bring her into the wilderness,     and speak tenderly to her. 15 And there I will give her her vineyards     and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth,     as at […]

Hosea 2:1-13 Say to your brothers, “You are my people,” and to your sisters, “You have received mercy.” 2 “Plead with your mother, plead—     for she is not my wife,     and I am not her husband— that she put away her whoring from her face,     and her adultery from between her breasts; 3 lest I strip her […]

Hosea 1:2-11 2 When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.” 3 So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son. […]

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. When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a […]