The Book of Hosea! verse by verse...

[Joy]

Hosea 9:6

For indeed they are gone because of destruction,
Egypt shall gather them up;
Memphis shall bury them.
Nettles shall possess their valuables of silver;
Thorns shall be in their tents.

 

[doc329]

Hosea 9:7 (KJV) The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.

 

[doc329]

Hosea 9:8 (KJV) The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.

 

[barb754]

Hosea 9:9 (KJV) They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

 

[doc329]

Hosea 9:10 (KJV) I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.

 

[StMatthew2429]

Hosea 9:11: As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

 

[doc329]

Hosea 9:12 (KJV) Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

 

[blueanjel]

Hosea 9:13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.

 

[barb754]

Hosea 9:14 (KJV) Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

 

[Glenda]

Hos 9:15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them out of My house for the wickedness of their doings, I will not add to love them; all their rulers are revolters.

 

[doc329]

Hosea 9:16 (KJV) Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.

 

[kelco]

Hos 9:17 My God will cast them away Because they have not listened to Him; And they will be wanderers among the nations.

 

[ChristianCandy]

[bible]Hosea 10:1[/bible]

 

[doc329]

Hosea 10:2 (KJV) Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.

 

[kelco]

Hos 10:3 Surely now they will say, "We have no king, For we do not revere the LORD. As for the king, what can he do for us?"

 

[Glenda]

Hos 10:4 They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

 

[doc329]

Hosea 10:5 (KJV) The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.

 

[barb754]

Hosea 10:6 (KJV) It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.

 

[doc329]

Hosea 10:7 (KJV) As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.

 

[ChristianCandy]

[bible]Hosea 10:8[/bible]