The Book of Hosea! verse by verse...

[kerrylee]

Hosea 1:1
This is God's Message to Hosea son of Beeri. It came to him during the royal reigns of Judah's kings Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. This was also the time that Jeroboam son of Joash was king over Israel.

 

[worldwatcher]

Hosea 1:2
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 LORD.

 

[barb754]

Hosea 1:3 (KJV)
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son.

 

[doc329]

Hosea 1:4 (KJV) And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.

 

[kerrylee]

Hosea 1:5
Payday is coming! I'm going to chop Israel's bows and arrows into kindling in the valley of Jezreel."

 

[doc329]

Hosea 1:6 (KJV)
And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.

 

[barb754]

Hosea 1:7 (KJV)
But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.

 

[doc329]

Hosea 1:8 (KJV) Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.

 

[Glenda]

Hos 1:9 Then He said, Call his name Not My People, for you are not My people, and I will not be for you.

 

[doc329]

Hosea 1:10 (KJV) Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.

 

[worldwatcher]

Hosea 1:11
Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.

 

[Glenda]

Hos 2:1 Say to your brothers, A people; and to your sisters, Mercy.

 

[doc329]

Hosea 2:2 (KJV) 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;

 

[Glenda]

Hos 2:3 that I not strip her naked and set her out as in the day that she was born, and make her as the wilderness, and place her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.

 

[doc329]

Hosea 2:4 (KJV) And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.

 

[Glenda]

Hos 2:5 For their mother has prostituted herself; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, I will go after my lovers who give my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

 

[doc329]

Hosea 2:6 (KJV) Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

 

[Glenda]

Hos 2:7 And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them. And she shall look for them, but she shall not find them. Then she shall say, I will go and return to my first husband, for then it was better with me than now.

 

[doc329]

Hosea 2:8 (KJV) For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.

 

[Glenda]

Hos 2:9 So I will return and take My grain in its time, and My wine in its season. And I will take back My wool and My flax she uses to cover her nakedness.