The Book of Hosea! verse by verse...

[barb754]

Hosea 2:14 (KJV) Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.

 

[cloakndagger]

Hsea 2:15

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.

 

[doc329]

Hosea 2:17 (KJV) For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.

 

[doc329]

Hosea 2:18 (KJV) And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.

 

[Joy]

Hosea 2:19

I will betroth you to Me forever;
Yes, I will betroth you to Me
In righteousness and justice
In lovingkindness and mercy

 

[James 1:27]

Hosea 2:20 (NIV)

I will betroth you in faithfulness,
and you will acknowledge the Lord,

 

[James 1:27]

Hosea 2:21 (NIV)

"In that day I will respond,"
declares the Lord-
"I will respond to the skies,
and they will respond to the earth;

 

[doc329]

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

 

[doc329]

Hosea 2:23 (KJV) And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.

 

[James 1:27]

Hosea 3:1 (NIV)

The Lord said to me, "Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes."

 

[James 1:27]

Hosea 3:2 (NIV)

So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and about a homer and a lethek of barley.

 

[James 1:27]

Hosea 3:3 (NIV)

Then I told her, "You are to live with me many days; you must not be a prostitute or be intimate with any man and I will live with you."

 

[James 1:27]

Hosea 3:4 (NIV)

For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones, without ephod or idol.

 

[James 1:27]

Hosea 3:5 (NIV)

Afterward the Israelites will return and seek the Lord their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the Lord and to his blessings in the last days.

 

[Keemah]

Hosea 4:1 - 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.

 

[barb754]

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.