The Book of Hosea! verse by verse...

[doc329]

Hosea 7:16 (KJV) They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

 

[barb754]

Hosea 8:1 (KJV) Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.

 

[worldwatcher]

Hosea 8:2
Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.

 

[doc329]

Hosea 8:3 (KJV) Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.

 

[bgoddenia]

Hosea 8:4 They set up kings without my consent;
they choose princes without my approval. With their silver and gold they make idols for themselves to their own destruction.

 

[doc329]

Hosea 8:5 (KJV) Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?

 

[barb754]

Hosea 8:6 (KJV)
For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

 

[doc329]

Hosea 8:7 (KJV) For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

 

[Glenda]

Hos 8:8 Israel is swallowed up; now they shall be among the nations as a vessel in which there is no pleasure.

 

[Joy]

Hosea 8:9
For they have gone up to Assyria
Like a wild donkey alone to itself;
Ephraim has hired lovers

 

[ChristianCandy]

[bible]Hosea 8:10[/bible]

 

[worldwatcher]

Hosea 8:11
Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.

 

[ChristianCandy]

[bible]Hosea 8:12[/bible]

 

[doc329]

Hosea 8:13 (KJV) They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

 

[ChristianCandy]

[bible]Hosea 8:14[/bible]

 

[bgoddenia]

Hosea 9:1 Do not rejoice, O Israel;do not be jubilant like the other nations. For you have been unfaithful to your God; you love the wages of a prostitute at every threshing floor.

 

[kelco]

Hos 9:2 Threshing floors and winepresses will not feed the people;
the new wine will fail them.

 

[doc329]

Hosea 9:3 (KJV) They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

 

[barb754]

Hosea 9:4 (KJV) They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.

 

[worldwatcher]

Hosea 9:5
What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?