The Book of Hosea! verse by verse...

[doc329]

Hosea 13:8 (KJV) I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.

 

[Glenda]

Hosea 13:9 O Israel, you are destroyed, but your help is in Me.

 

[worldwatcher]

Hosea 13:10
I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?

 

[Glenda]

Hosea 13:11 I gave to you a king in My anger, and took him away in My fury.

 

[barb754]

Hosea 13:12 (KJV)
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.

 

[doc329]

Hosea 13:13 (KJV) The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children.

 

[ChristianCandy]

[bible]Hosea 13:14[/bible]

 

[Joy]

Hosea 13:15

Though he is fruitful among his brethern,
An east wind shall come,
The wind of the Lord shall come up from the wilderness.
Then his spring shall become dry,
And his fountain shall be dried up
He shall punder the treasury
of every desirable prize.

 

[Eryk]

HOS 13:16 Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

 

[doc329]

Hosea 14:1 (KJV) O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

 

[Eryk]

HOS 14:2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.

 

[Eryk]

HOS 14:3 Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.

 

[doc329]

Hosea 14:4 (KJV) I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.

 

[barb754]

Hosea 14:5 (KJV) I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

 

[Glenda]

Hosea 14:6 His branches shall go out, and his beauty shall be like the olive tree, and his scent as Lebanon to him.

 

[Eryk]

HOS 14:7
They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

 

[doc329]

Hosea 14:8 (KJV) Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.

 

[ChristianCandy]

[bible]Hosea 14:9[/bible]

 

[doc329]

Hosea 1:1 (KJV) 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.

 

[ChristianCandy]

[bible]Hosea 1:2[/bible]