Then the LORD said to me, “Go show love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love to offer raisin cakes to idols.”
Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on y
Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefo
When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery,
Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does
How could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I tr
For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possessio
Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity.
He has helped His servant Israel, remembering to be merciful,
But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be com
For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, dr
But as a woman may betray her husband, so you have betrayed Me, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD.
Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I will return to Jerusalem with mercy, and there My house will be rebuilt, declar
You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the tabl
As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant look to the hand of her mistress,
They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained th
Then he distributed to every man and woman among the multitude of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake
So the next day they arose, offered burnt offerings, and presented peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and d
But in Your great compassion, You did not put an end to them; nor did You forsake them, for You are a gracious and compa
So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.
And after they had gone out into the fields, gathered grapes from their vineyards, and trodden them, they held a festiva
You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph
But the LORD was gracious to Israel and had compassion on them, and He turned toward them because of His covenant with A
Even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and
In that day men will look to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge
to promiscuity, wine, and new wine, which take away understanding.
Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have ma
The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him.
“Friend,” Jesus replied, “do what you came for.” Then the men stepped forward, seized Jesus, and arrested Him.