The Book of Hosea! verse by verse...

[barb754]

Hosea 2:15 (KJV) And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

 

[doc329]

Hosea 2:16 (KJV) And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.

 

[JPPT1974]

[BIBLE]Hosea 2:17[/BIBLE]

 

[meh]

Hosea 2:18

In that day I will make a covenant for them
With the beasts of the field,
With the birds of the air,
And with the creeping things of the ground.
Bow and sword of battle I will shatter from the earth,
To make them lie down safely.

 

[doc329]

Hosea 2:19 (KJV) And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.

 

[barb754]

Hosea 2:20 (KJV) I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.

 

[doc329]

Hosea 2:21 (KJV) And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;

 

[barb754]

Hosea 2:22 (KJV) And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.

 

[Joy]

[BIBLE]Hosea 2:23[/BIBLE]

 

[Nilloc]

Hosea 3:1

Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.

 

[doc329]

Hosea 3:2 (KJV) So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:

 

[Joy]

[BIBLE]Hosea 3:3[/BIBLE]

 

[_beloved_]

[bible]Hosea 3:4[/bible]

 

[barb754]

Hosea 3:5 (KJV) Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.

 

[doc329]

Hosea 4:1 (KJV) Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

 

[barb754]

Hosea 4:2 (KJV) By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

 

[doc329]

Hosea 4:3 (KJV) Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

 

[barb754]

Hosea 4:4 (KJV) Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.

 

[doc329]

Hosea 4:5 (KJV) Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.

 

[Nilloc]

Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
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