The Best Bible Verses in Hosea (ESV)

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Hosea

•   Hosea 1:2 the LORD said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom & have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom”

•   Hosea 1:4 “Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel”

•   Hosea 1:6 “Call her name No Mercy, for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all.”

•   Hosea 1:9 “Call his name Not My People, for you are not my people, and I am not your God.”

•   Hosea 1:10 And in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Children of the living God.”

•   Hosea 2:8 it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, & the oil, & who lavished on her silver & gold, which they used for Baal.

•   Hosea 2:13 I will punish her for the feast days of the Baals…and went after her lovers and forgot me, declares the LORD

•   Hosea 2:19 I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.

•   Hosea 2:23 I will have mercy on No Mercy, and I will say to Not My People, ‘You are my people’; and he shall say, ‘You are my God.’”

•   Hosea 3:5 Afterward the children of Israel shall return & seek the LORD their God…they shall come in fear to the LORD and to his goodness

•   Hosea 4:1–2 There is no faithfulness…no knowledge of God in the land; there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, & committing adultery

•   Hosea 4:6 “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge”

•   Hosea 4:7 The more they increased, the more they sinned against me; I will change their glory into shame.

•   Hosea 4:12 My people inquire of a piece of wood, and their walking staff gives them oracles. For a spirit of whoredom has led them astray

•   Hosea 5:7 They have dealt faithlessly with the LORD; for they have borne alien children.

•   Hosea 6:1 Come, let us return to the LORD; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.

•   Hosea 7:2 they do not consider that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds surround them; they are before my face.

•   Hosea 7:14 They do not cry to me from the heart, but they wail upon their beds; for grain &wine they gash themselves; they rebel against me.

•   Hosea 8:4 They made kings, but not through me. They set up princes, but I knew it not. With their silver and gold they made idols

•   Hosea 8:7 For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.

•   Hosea 8:14 For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; so I will send a fire

•   Hosea 10:2, Their heart is false; now they must bear their guilt…They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants

•   Hosea 10:12 Sow for yourselves righteousness…for it is the time to seek the LORD, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.

•   Hosea 10:13 You have plowed iniquity; you have reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way

•   Hosea 11:2 The more they were called, the more they went away; they kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning offerings to idols.

•   Hosea 11:8 my compassion grows warm & tender

•   Hosea 12:10 I spoke to the prophets; it was I who multiplied visions, and through the prophets gave parables.

•   Hosea 13:4 But I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior.

•   Hosea 14:4 I will heal their apostasy; I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from them.

•   Hosea 14:9 for the ways of the LORD are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them