Book of Hosea Chapter 1

1. The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
2. When the LORD spoke at first with Hosea,  the LORD said unto Hosea: 'Go, take unto thee a wife of harlotry and children of harlotry; for the land doth commit great harlotry, departing from the LORD.'
3. So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.
4. And the LORD said unto him: 'Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will visit the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.
5. And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.'
6. And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And He said unto him: 'Call her name Lo-ruhamah; for I will no more have compassion upon the house of Israel, that I should in any wise pardon them.
7. But I will have compassion 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, nor by horses, nor by horsemen.'
8. Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son.
9. And He said: 'Call his name Lo-ammi; for ye are not My people, and I will not be yours.'

Book of Hosea Chapter 2

1. 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, instead of that which was said unto them: 'Ye are not My people', it shall be said unto them: 'Ye are the children of the living God.'
2. And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint themselves one head, and shall go up out of the land; for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
3. Say ye unto your brethren: 'Ammi'; and to your sisters, 'Ruhamah.'
4. Plead with your mother, plead; for she is not My wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her harlotries from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
5. 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.
6. And I will not have compassion upon her children; for they are children of harlotry.
7. 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.'
8. Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will make a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths.
9. And she shall run 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.'
10. For she did not know that it was I that gave her the corn, and the wine, and the oil, and multiplied unto her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
11. Therefore will I take back My corn in the time thereof, and My wine in the season thereof, and will snatch away My wool and My flax given to cover her nakedness.
12. And now will I uncover her shame in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of My hand.
13. I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her appointed seasons.
14. And I will lay waste her vines and her fig-trees, whereof she hath said: 'These are my hire that my lovers have given me'; and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
15. And I will visit upon her the days of the Baalim, wherein she offered unto them, and decked herself with her ear-rings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot Me, saith the LORD.
16. Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly unto her.
17. And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she shall respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
18. And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call Me Ishi, and shalt call Me no more Baali.
19. For I will take away the names of the Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be mentioned by their name.
20. 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 land, and will make them to lie down safely.
21. And I will betroth thee unto Me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto Me in righteousness, and in justice, and in lovingkindness, and in compassion.
22. And I will betroth thee unto Me in faithfulness; and thou shalt know the LORD.
23. And it shall come to pass in that day, I will respond, saith the LORD, I will respond to the heavens, and they shall respond to the earth;
24. And the earth shall respond to the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall respond to Jezreel.
25. And I will sow her unto Me in the land; and I will have compassion upon her that had not obtained compassion; and I will say to them that were not My people: 'Thou art My people'; and they shall say: 'Thou art my God.'

Book of Hosea Chapter 3

1. And the LORD said unto me: 'Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend and an adulteress, even as the LORD loveth the children of Israel, though they turn unto other gods, and love cakes of raisins.
2. So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley;
3. and I said unto her: 'Thou shalt sit solitary for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be any man's wife; nor will I be thine.'
4. For the children of Israel shall sit solitary many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without pillar, and without ephod or teraphim;
5. afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall come trembling unto the LORD and to His goodness in the end of days.

Book of Hosea Chapter 4

1. Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel! 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.
2. Swearing and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery! they break all bounds, and blood toucheth blood.
3. Therefore doth the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein doth languish, with the beasts of the field, and the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also are taken away.
4. Yet let no man strive, neither let any man reprove; for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
5. Therefore shalt thou stumble in the day, and the prophet also shall stumble with thee in the night; and I will destroy thy mother.
6. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to Me; seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.
7. The more they were increased, the more they sinned against Me; I will change their glory into shame.
8. They feed on the sin of My people, and set their heart on their iniquity.
9. And it is like people, like priest; and I will punish him for his ways, and will recompense him his doings.
10. And they shall eat, and not have enough, they shall commit harlotry, and shall not increase; because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.
11. Harlotry, wine, and new wine take away the heart.
12. My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declareth unto them; for the spirit of harlotry hath caused them to err, and they have gone astray from under their God.
13. They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and offer upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow thereof is good; therefore your daughters commit harlotry, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.
14. I will not punish your daughters when they commit harlotry, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery; for they themselves consort with lewd women, and they sacrifice with harlots; and the people that is without understanding is distraught.
15. Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah become guilty; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear: 'As the LORD liveth.'
16. For Israel is stubborn like a stubborn heifer; now shall the LORD feed them as a lamb in a large place?
17. Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.
18. When their carouse is over, they take to harlotry; her rulers deeply love dishonour.
19. The wind hath bound her up in her skirts; and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

Book of Hosea Chapter 5

1. Hear this, O ye priests, and attend, ye house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king, for unto you pertaineth the judgment; for ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
2. And they that fall away are gone deep in making slaughter; and I am rejected of them all.
3. I, even I, know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from Me; for now, O Ephraim, thou hast committed harlotry, Israel is defiled.
4. Their doings will not suffer them to return unto their God; for the spirit of harlotry is within them, and they know not the LORD.
5. But the pride of Israel shall testify to his face; and Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in their iniquity, Judah also shall stumble with them.
6. With their flocks and with their herds they shall go to seek the LORD, but they shall not find Him; He hath withdrawn Himself from them.
7. They have dealt treacherously against the LORD, for they have begotten strange children; now shall the new moon devour them with their portions.
8. Blow ye the horn in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah; sound an alarm at Beth-aven: 'Behind thee, O Benjamin!'
9. Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke; among the tribes of Israel do I make known that which shall surely be.
10. The princes of Judah are like them that remove the landmark; I will pour out My wrath upon them like water.
11. Oppressed is Ephraim, crushed in his right; because he willingly walked after filth.
12. Therefore am I unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
13. And when Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to King Contentious; but he is not able to heal you, neither shall he cure you of your wound.
14. For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah; I, even I, will tear and go away, I will take away, and there shall be none to deliver.
15. I will go and return to My place, till they acknowledge their guilt, and seek My face; in their trouble they will seek Me earnestly:

Book of 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, on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.
3. And let us know, eagerly strive to know the LORD, His going forth is sure as the morning; and He shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain that watereth the earth.'
4. O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that early passeth away.
5. Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of My mouth; and thy judgment goeth forth as the light.
6. For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt-offerings.
7. But they like men have transgressed the covenant; there have they dealt treacherously against Me.
8. Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, it is covered with footprints of blood.
9. And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so doth the company of priests; they murder in the way toward Shechem; yea, they commit enormity.
10. In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; there harlotry is found in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
11. Also, O Judah, there is a harvest appointed for thee! When I would turn the captivity of My people,

Book of Hosea Chapter 7

1. when I would heal Israel, then is the iniquity of Ephraim uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria, for they commit falsehood; and the thief entereth in, and the troop of robbers maketh a raid without.
2. And let them not say to their heart--I remember all their wickedness; now their own doings have beset them about, they are before My face.
3. They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
4. They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth to stir from the kneading of the dough until it be leavened.
5. On the day of our king the princes make him sick with the heat of wine, he stretcheth out his hand with scorners.
6. For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait; their baker sleepeth all the night, in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
7. They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges; all their kings are fallen, there is none among them that calleth unto Me.
8. Ephraim, he mixeth himself with the peoples; Ephraim is become a cake not turned.
9. Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not; yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, and he knoweth it not.
10. And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face; but they have not returned unto the LORD their God, nor sought Him, for all this.
11. And Ephraim is become like a silly dove, without understanding; they call unto Egypt, they go to Assyria.
12. Even as they go, I will spread My net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath been made to hear.
13. Woe unto them! for they have strayed from Me; Destruction unto them! for they have transgressed against Me; Shall I then redeem them, seeing they have spoken lies against Me?
14. And they have not cried unto Me with their heart, though they wail upon their beds; they assemble themselves for corn and wine, they rebel against Me.
15. Though I have trained and strengthened their arms, yet do they devise evil against Me.
16. They return, but not upwards; they are become like a deceitful bow; their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue; this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.