Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Hosea+011   Hosea 11 (ESV) 1 When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. 2 The more they were called, the more they went away; they kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning offerings to idols. 3 Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk; I took them up by […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Hosea+010   Hosea 10 (ESV) 12 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. 13 You have plowed iniquity; you have reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Hosea+009   Hosea 9 (ESV) 1 Rejoice not, O Israel! Exult not like the peoples; for you have played the whore, forsaking your God. You have loved a prostitute’s wages on all threshing floors. 2 Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail them. 3 They shall not remain […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Hosea+008   Hosea 8 (ESV) 8 Israel is swallowed up; already they are among the nations as a useless vessel. 9 For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild donkey wandering alone; Ephraim has hired lovers. 10 Though they hire allies among the nations, I will soon gather them up. And the king and princes shall soon writhe […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Hosea+007   Hosea 7 (ESV) 8 Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned. 9 Strangers devour his strength, and he knows it not; gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, and he knows it not. 10 The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek […]