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Hosea · read by Chuck Smith
115 verses, in order. Only the verses Chuck read aloud are shown.
Hosea 1
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When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, "Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery, because this land is flagrantly prostituting itself by departing from the LORD."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 1-4
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And on that day I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 1-4
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And the LORD said, "Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not your God.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 1-4
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Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, 'You are not My people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 1-4
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Then the people of Judah and of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint for themselves one leader, and will go up out of the land. For great will be the day of Jezreel.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 1-4
Hosea 2
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Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 1-4
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Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 1-4
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I will have no compassion on her children, because they are the children of adultery.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 1-4
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For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, 'I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 1-4
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Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 1-4
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She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will say, 'I will return to my first husband, for then I was better off than now.'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 1-4
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For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, who lavished on her silver and gold— which they crafted for Baal.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 1-4
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Therefore I will take back My grain in its time and My new wine in its season; I will take away My wool and linen, which were given to cover her nakedness.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 1-4
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I will destroy her vines and fig trees, which she thinks are the wages paid by her lovers. So I will make them into a thicket, and the beasts of the field will devour them.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 1-4
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"Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness, and speak to her tenderly.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 1-4
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For I will remove from her lips the names of the Baals; no longer will their names be invoked.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 1-4
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On that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that crawl on the ground. And I will abolish bow and sword and weapons of war in the land, and will make them lie down in safety.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 1-4
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And I will betroth you in faithfulness, and you will know the LORD."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 1-4
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"On that day I will respond—" declares the LORD— "I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 1-4
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And the earth will respond to the grain, to the new wine and oil, and they will respond to Jezreel.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 1-4
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And I will sow her as My own in the land, and I will have compassion on 'No Compassion.' I will say to those called 'Not My People,' 'You are My people,' and they will say, 'You are my God.'"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 1-4
Hosea 3
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Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to His goodness in the last days.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 1-4
Hosea 4
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Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 1-4
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But let no man contend; let no man offer reproof; for your people are like those who contend with a priest.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 1-4
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You will stumble by day, and the prophet will stumble with you by night; so I will destroy your mother—Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 1-4
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The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against Me; they exchanged their Glory for a thing of disgrace.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 1-4
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They feed on the sins of My people and set their hearts on iniquity.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 1-4
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They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have stopped obeying the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 1-4
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I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 1-4
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Though you prostitute yourself, O Israel, may Judah avoid such guilt! Do not journey to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear on oath, 'As surely as the LORD lives!'Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 1-4
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For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn heifer. Can the LORD now shepherd them like lambs in an open meadow?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 1-4
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When their liquor is gone, they turn to prostitution; their rulers dearly love disgrace.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 1-4
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The whirlwind has wrapped them in its wings, and their sacrifices will bring them shame.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 1-4
Hosea 5
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Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God, for a spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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Israel's arrogance testifies against them; Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity; even Judah stumbles with them.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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They go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but they do not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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They have been unfaithful to the LORD; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the New Moon will devour them along with their land.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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Ephraim will be laid waste on the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel I proclaim what is certain.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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The princes of Judah are like those who move boundary stones; I will pour out My fury upon them like water.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, for he is determined to follow worthless idols.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, then Ephraim turned to Assyria and sent to the great king. But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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For I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear them to pieces and then go away. I will carry them off where no one can rescue them.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
Hosea 6
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Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) 2 Peter 1-3
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So let us know— let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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What shall I do with you, O Ephraim ? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth, and My judgments go forth like lightning.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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Like raiders who lie in ambush, so does a band of priests; they murder on the way to Shechem; surely they have committed atrocities.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
Hosea 7
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When I heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim will be exposed, as well as the crimes of Samaria. For they practice deceit and thieves break in; bandits raid in the streets.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; they are before My face.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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They delight the king with their evil, and the princes with their lies.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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Ephraim mixes with the nations; Ephraim is an unturned cake.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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Israel's arrogance testifies against them, yet they do not return to the LORD their God; despite all this, they do not seek Him.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove— calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against Me! Though I would redeem them, they speak lies against Me.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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Although I trained and strengthened their arms, they plot evil against Me.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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They turn, but not to the Most High; they are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword for the cursing of their tongue; for this they will be ridiculed in the land of Egypt.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
Hosea 8
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Put the ram's horn to your lips! An eagle looms over the house of the LORD, because the people have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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For this thing is from Israel— a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.Read from KJV · Sowing the Wind
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Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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Though they hire allies among the nations, I will now round them up, and they will begin to diminish under the oppression of the king of princes.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
Hosea 9
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The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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They will not pour out wine offerings to the LORD, and their sacrifices will not please Him, but will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat will be defiled. For their bread will be for themselves; it will not enter the house of the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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What will you do on the appointed day, on the day of the LORD's feast?Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have arrived— let Israel know it. The prophet is called a fool, and the inspired man insane, because of the greatness of your iniquity and hostility.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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The prophet is Ephraim's watchman, along with my God, yet the snare of the fowler lies on all his paths. Hostility is in the house of his God!Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their guilt; He will punish their sins.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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Ephraim's glory will fly away like a bird, with no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of each one. Yes, woe be to them when I turn away from them!Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a meadow. But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them from My house for the wickedness of their deeds. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
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My God will reject them because they have not obeyed Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 5-9
Hosea 10
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Samaria will be carried off with her king like a twig on the surface of the water.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 10-14
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The high places of Aven will be destroyed— it is the sin of Israel; thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, "Cover us!" and to the hills, "Fall on us!"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 10-14
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I will chasten them when I please; nations will be gathered against them to put them in bondage for their double transgression.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 10-14
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the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be demolished as Shalman devastated Beth-arbel in the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to pieces along with their children.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 10-14
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Thus it will be done to you, O Bethel, because of your great wickedness. When the day dawns, the king of Israel will be utterly cut off.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 10-14
Hosea 11
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When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 10-14
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But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 10-14
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A sword will flash through their cities; it will destroy the bars of their gates and consume them in their own plans.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 10-14
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My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call to the Most High, He will by no means exalt them.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 10-14
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How could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred!Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 10-14
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I will not execute the full fury of My anger; I will not turn back to destroy Ephraim. For I am God and not man— the Holy One among you— and I will not come in wrath.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 10-14
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They will walk after the LORD; He will roar like a lion. When He roars, His children will come trembling from the west.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 10-14
Hosea 12
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The LORD also brings a charge against Judah. He will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him according to his deeds.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 10-14
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In the womb he grasped his brother's heel, and in his vigor he wrestled with God.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 10-14
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the LORD is the God of Hosts— the LORD is His name of renown.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 10-14
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But I am the LORD your God ever since the land of Egypt. I will again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the appointed feast.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 10-14
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I spoke through the prophets and multiplied their visions; I gave parables through the prophets.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 10-14
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Is there iniquity in Gilead? They will surely come to nothing. Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Indeed, their altars will be heaps of stones in the furrows of the field.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 10-14
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Ephraim has provoked bitter anger, so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt upon him and repay him for his contempt.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 10-14
Hosea 13
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Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 10-14
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Yet I am the LORD your God ever since the land of Egypt; you know no God but Me, for there is no Savior besides Me.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 10-14
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I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 10-14
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So like a lion I will pounce on them; like a leopard I will lurk by the path.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 10-14
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Like a bear robbed of her cubs I will attack them, and I will tear open their chests. There I will devour them like a lion, like a wild beast would tear them apart.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 10-14
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So in My anger I gave you a king, and in My wrath I took him away.Read from NASB1995 · (Through the Bible) Hosea 10-14
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The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is stored up.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 10-14
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Labor pains come upon him, but he is an unwise son. When the time arrives, he fails to present himself at the opening of the womb.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 10-14
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Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come— a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious article.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 10-14
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Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 10-14
Hosea 14
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His shoots will sprout, and his splendor will be like the olive tree, his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 10-14
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They will return and dwell in his shade; they will grow grain and blossom like the vine. His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 10-14
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Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, and the righteous walk in them but the rebellious stumble in them.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Hosea 10-14