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• Hosea 2:19  (Hosea 2)

  And 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 3:1  (Hosea 3)

  And the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.”

• Hosea 4:1  (Hosea 4)

  Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel,

  for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land.

  There is no faithfulness or steadfast love,

  and no knowledge of God in the land;

• Hosea 4:18  (Hosea 4)

  When their drink is gone, they give themselves to whoring;

  their rulers1 dearly love shame.

  Footnotes

  [1] 4:18 Hebrew shields

• Hosea 6:4  (Hosea 6)

  What shall I do with you, O Ephraim?

  What shall I do with you, O Judah?

  Your love is like a morning cloud,

  like the dew that goes early away.

• Hosea 6:6  (Hosea 6)

  For I desire steadfast love1 and not sacrifice,

  the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

  Footnotes

  [1] 6:6 Septuagint mercy

• Hosea 9:15  (Hosea 9)

  Every evil of theirs is in Gilgal;

  there I began to hate them.

  Because of the wickedness of their deeds

  I will drive them out of my house.

  I will love them no more;

  all their princes are rebels.

• Hosea 10:12  (Hosea 10)

  Sow for yourselves righteousness;

  reap steadfast love;

  break up your fallow ground,

  for it is the time to seek the Lord,

  that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.

• Hosea 11:4  (Hosea 11)

  I led them with cords of kindness,1

  with the bands of love,

  and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws,

  and I bent down to them and fed them.

  Footnotes

  [1] 11:4 Or humaneness; Hebrew man

• Hosea 12:6  (Hosea 12)

  “So you, by the help of your God, return,

  hold fast to love and justice,

  and wait continually for your God.”

• Hosea 14:4  (Hosea 14)

  I will heal their apostasy;

  I will love them freely,

  for my anger has turned from them.