Hosea - Chapter 3
4: 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: 5: 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.
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* "David a prince" (Ezekiel 34:24), "David a leader" (Isaiah 55:3-4)
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Hosea - Chapter 14
     1: O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by
thine iniquity. 2: Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto
him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we
render the calves of our lips. 3: Asshur shall not save us; we will not
ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our
hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
     4: I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for
mine anger is turned away from him. 5: I will be as the dew unto
Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
6: His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive
tree, and his smell as Lebanon. 7: They that dwell under his shadow
shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the
scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
     8: Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I
have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me
is thy fruit found. 9: Who is wise, and he shall understand these
things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are
right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall
fall therein.
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Hosea - Chapter 2
     13: And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, 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. 14: Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the
wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. 15: 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, and as in the day
when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
     16: And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt
call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali. 17: For I will take away
the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be
remembered by their name.
     18: 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.
19: 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. 20: I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and
thou shalt know the LORD.
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* "covenant of peace" through "David a prince" (Ezekiel 34:24),
"messenger of the covenant" (Malachi 3:1)
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     21: 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; 22: And
the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they
shall hear Jezreel. 23: And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I
will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to
them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say,
Thou art my God.
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* Hosea Chapters 4-13 refers to time of Christ and his rejection by
Jews.
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Hosea - Chapter 6
1: Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will
heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. 2: After *two days*
will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall
live in his sight. 3: Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the
LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come
unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
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Hosea - Chapter 10
12: Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your
fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain
righteousness upon you. 13: Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped
iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in
thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men. 14: Therefore shall a
tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled,
as Shalman spoiled Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the mother was
dashed in pieces upon her children. 15: So shall Bethel do unto you
because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the *king of
Israel utterly be cut off.
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Hosea - Chapter 11
9: I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return
to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the *Holy One in the
midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.
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Hosea - Chapter 13
8: I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will
rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion:
the wild beast shall tear them. 9: O Israel, thou hast destroyed
thyself; but in me is thine help. 10: I will be thy king: where is any
other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou
saidst, Give me a king and princes? 11: I gave thee a *king in mine
anger, and took him away in my wrath.
14: I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them
from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy
destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
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* "The king of Israel", "Holy One", "a king" = Jesus Christ who was
rejected by Jews.
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