Hosea: Selected Verses
- Many shall be purified, and made white. 0:0
- And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms. 1:2
- 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. 2:2
- I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms. 2:4
- Now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand. 2:10
- She decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD. 2:13
- Call me Ishi. 2:16
- 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. 2:18
- In that day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth. 2:21
- Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress. 3:1
- So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley. 3:2
- Therefore shalt thou fall in the day ... and I will destroy thy mother. 4:5
- Seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. 4:6
- Therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery. 4:13
- They have begotten strange children. 5:7
- I have slain them by the words of my mouth. 6:5
- Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me. 7:13
- I will send a fire upon his cities. 8:14
- Thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor. 9:1
- The prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad. 9:7
- Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them. 9:12
- Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. 9:14
- Yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb. 9:16
- The mother was dashed in pieces upon her children. 10:14
- The LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble. 11:10
- I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them. 13:8
- Their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up. 13:16
- We will not ride upon horses. 14:3