Discovery BoxHosea 12:3 
ContextIsrael Must Return to the God of Jacob
12:3 In the womb he attacked his brother;
in his manly vigor he struggled 1 with God.
Hosea 12:5
Context12:5 As for the Lord God Almighty,
the Lord is the name by which he is remembered! 2
Hosea 14:1
ContextProphetic Call to Genuine Repentance
14:1 Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
for your sin has been your downfall! 3
1 tn The verb שָׂרָה (sarah) means “to strive, contend” (HALOT 1354 s.v. שׂרה) or “persevere, persist” (BDB 975 s.v. שָׂרָה; see Gen 32:29). Almost all English versions render the verb here in terms of the former: NAB, NASB “contended”; NRSV “strove”; TEV, CEV “fought against.”
2 tn Heb “[is] his memorial name” (so ASV); TEV “the name by which he is to be worshipped.”
3 tn Heb “For you have stumbled in your iniquity”; NASB, NRSV “because of your iniquity.”
