The Book of Hosea! verse by verse...

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

 

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[bible]Hosea 1:4[/bible]

 

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Hosea 1:5 (KJV) And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.

 

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Hosea 1:6

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.

 

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Hos 1:7 And I will have mercy on the house of Judah and will save them by Jehovah their God. And I will not save them by bow or by sword, or by battle, by horses, or by horsemen.

 

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

 

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

 

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[bible]Hosea 1:10[/bible]

 

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[bible]hosea 1:11[/bible]

 

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Hosea 2:1 (KJV) Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.

 

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Hos 2:2 Strive! Strive with your mother, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Therefore, let her put away her harlotries from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts,

 

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Hosea 2:3

Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

 

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[bible]Hosea 2:4[/bible]

 

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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.

 

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[bible]Hosea 2:6[/bible]

 

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

 

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Hos 2:8 For she did not know that I gave her grain, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.

 

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Hosea 2:9 (KJV) Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.

 

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Hos 2:10 And now I will uncover her shamefulness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.

 

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Hosea 2:11 (KJV) I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.