Hosea:1-3

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* The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea , the son of Beeri B @#eriy #, in the days of Uzziah , Jotham , Ahaz , and Hezekiah , kings of Judah , and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash Yow #ash #, king of Israel Yisra #el #. * The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea . And the LORD said to Hosea , Go , take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms : for the land hath committed great whoredom , departing from the LORD . * So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim ; which conceived , and bare him a son . * And the LORD said unto him , Call his name Jezreel Yizr @#e #l #; for yet a little while , and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel Yizr @#e #l # upon the house of Jehu , and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel Yisra #el #. * And it shall come to pass at that day , that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel Yizr @#e #l #. * And she conceived again , and bare a daughter . And God said unto him , Call her name Loruhamah R : for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel Yisra #el #; but I will utterly take them away . * But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah , and will save them by the LORD their God , and will not save them by bow , nor by sword , nor by battle , by horses , nor by horsemen . * Now when she had weaned Loruhamah R , she conceived , and bare a son . * Then said God , Call his name Loammi : for ye are not my people , and I will not be your God . * Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea , which cannot be measured nor numbered ; and it shall come to pass , that in the place where it was said unto them , Ye are not my people , there it shall be said unto them , Ye are the sons of the living God . * Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together , and appoint themselves one head ro #sh #, and they shall come up out of the land : for great shall be the day of Jezreel Yizr @#e #l #. * Say ye unto your brethren , Ammi ; and to your sisters , Ruhamah . * Plead with your mother , plead : for she is not my wife , neither am I her husband : let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight , and her adulteries from between her breasts ; * Lest I strip her naked , and set her as in the day that she was born , and make her as a wilderness , and set her like a dry land , and slay her with thirst . * And I will not have mercy upon her children ; for they be the children of whoredoms . * For their mother hath played the harlot : she that conceived them hath done shamefully : for she said , I will go after my lovers , that give me my bread and my water , my wool and my flax , mine oil and my drink . * Therefore , behold , I will hedge up thy way with thorns , and make a wall , that she shall not find her paths . * And she shall follow after her lovers , but she shall not overtake them ; and she shall seek them , but shall not find them : then shall she say , I will go and return to my first husband ; for then was it better with me than now . * For she did not know that I gave her corn , and wine , and oil , and multiplied her silver and gold , which they prepared for Baal Ba #al #. * Therefore will I return , and take away my corn in the time thereof , and my wine in the season thereof , and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness . * And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers , and none shall deliver her out of mine hand . * I will also cause all her mirth to cease , her feast days , her new moons , and her sabbaths , and all her solemn feasts mow #ed #. * And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees t @#en #, whereof she hath said , These are my rewards that my lovers have given me : and I will make them a forest ya #ar #, and the beasts of the field shall eat them . * And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim Ba #al #, wherein she burned incense to them , and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels , and she went after her lovers , and forgat me , saith the LORD . * Therefore , behold , I will allure her , and bring her into the wilderness , and speak comfortably unto her . * And I will give her her vineyards from thence , and the valley of Achor for a door of hope : and she shall sing there , as in the days of her youth na #uwr #, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt . * And it shall be at that day , saith the LORD , that thou shalt call me Ishi ; and shalt call me no more Baali Ba #aliy #. * For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth , and they shall no more be remembered by their name . * And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field , and with the fowls of heaven , and with the creeping things of the ground : and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth , and will make them to lie down safely . * And I will betroth thee unto me for ever ; yea , I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness , and in judgment , and in lovingkindness , and in mercies . * I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness : and thou shalt know the LORD . * And it shall come to pass in that day , I will hear , saith the LORD , I will hear the heavens , and they shall hear the earth ; * And the earth shall hear the corn , and the wine , and the oil ; and they shall hear Jezreel Yizr @#e #l #. * And I will sow her unto me in the earth ; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy (8677 ); and I will say to them which were not my people , Thou art my people ; and they shall say , Thou art my God . * Then said the LORD unto me , Go yet , love a woman beloved of her friend , yet an adulteress , according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel Yisra #el #, who look to other gods , and love flagons of wine . * So I bought her to me for fifteen #H2568pieces of silver , and for an homer of barley s @#orah #, and an half homer of barley s @#orah #: * And I said unto her , Thou shalt abide for me many days ; thou shalt not play the harlot , and thou shalt not be for another man : so will I also be for thee . * For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king , and without a prince , and without a sacrifice , and without an image , and without an ephod , and without teraphim : * Afterward shall the children of Israel return , and seek the LORD their God , and David their king ; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days . * Hear the word of the LORD , ye children of Israel Yisra #el #: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land , because there is no truth , nor mercy , nor knowledge of God in the land .

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