The Book of Hosea! verse by verse...

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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 (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.

 

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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.

 

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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 (KJV) Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.

 

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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.

 

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Hosea 1:11 (KJV) 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.

 

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

 

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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;

 

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Hosea 2:3 (KJV) 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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Hosea 2:4 (KJV) And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.

 

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Hosea 2:5 (KJV) For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.

 

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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.

 

[Keemah]

Hosea 2:7 - 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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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.

 

[charzz]

Hosea 2:9
"Therefore I will take away my grain when it ripens, and my new wine when it is ready. I will take back my wool and my linen, intended to cover her nakedness.

 

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Hosea 2:10 (KJV) And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine 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.

 

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Hosea 2:12 (KJV) And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

 

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Hosea 2:13 And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.