31:6 You Israelites! Return to the one against whom you have so blatantly rebelled! 1
18:21 For I have obeyed the Lord’s commands; 2
I have not rebelled against my God. 3
2:13 “Do so because my people have committed a double wrong:
they have rejected me,
the fountain of life-giving water, 4
and they have dug cisterns for themselves,
cracked cisterns which cannot even hold water.”
2:19 Your own wickedness will bring about your punishment.
Your unfaithful acts will bring down discipline on you. 5
Know, then, and realize how utterly harmful 6
it was for you to reject me, the Lord your God, 7
to show no respect for me,” 8
says the Lord God who rules over all. 9
2:20 “Indeed, 10 long ago you threw off my authority
and refused to be subject to me. 11
You said, ‘I will not serve you.’ 12
Instead, you gave yourself to other gods on every high hill
and under every green tree,
like a prostitute sprawls out before her lovers. 13
2:21 I planted you in the land
like a special vine of the very best stock.
Why in the world have you turned into something like a wild vine
that produces rotten, foul-smelling grapes? 14
3:20 But, you have been unfaithful to me, nation of Israel, 15
like an unfaithful wife who has left her husband,” 16
says the Lord.
17:13 You are the one in whom Israel may find hope. 17
All who leave you will suffer shame.
Those who turn away from you 18 will be consigned to the nether world. 19
For they have rejected you, the Lord, the fountain of life. 20
1:2 When the Lord first spoke 28 through 29 Hosea, he 30 said to him, 31 “Go marry 32 a prostitute 33 who will bear illegitimate children conceived through prostitution, 34 because the nation 35 continually commits spiritual prostitution 36 by turning away from 37 the Lord.”
3:12 See to it, 38 brothers and sisters, 39 that none of you has 40 an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes 41 the living God. 42