Discovery Box| (1.00) | Hos 6:9 |
| The company of priests is like a gang of robbers, lying in ambush to pounce on a victim. They commit murder on the road to Shechem; they have done heinous crimes! |
| (1.00) | Hos 6:10 |
| I have seen a disgusting thing in the temple of Israel: there Ephraim practices temple prostitution and Judah defiles itself. |
| (1.00) | Hos 6:11 |
| I have appointed a time to reap judgment 1 for you also, O Judah!Whenever I want to restore the fortunes of my people, 2 |
| (1.00) | Hos 7:8 |
| Ephraim has mixed itself like flour 1 among the nations; Ephraim is like a ruined cake of bread that is scorched on one side. 2 |
| (1.00) | Hos 7:9 |
| Foreigners are consuming what his strenuous labor produced, 1 but he does not recognize it! His head is filled with gray hair, but he does not realize it! |
| (1.00) | Hos 7:13 |
| Woe to them! For they have fled from me! Destruction to them! For they have rebelled against me! I want to deliver 1 them, but they have lied to me. |
| (1.00) | Hos 7:16 |
| They turn to Baal; 1 they are like an unreliable bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword because their prayers to Baal 2 have made me angry. So people will disdain them in the land of Egypt. 3 |
| (1.00) | Hos 8:6 |
| That idol was made by a workman – it is not God! The calf idol of Samaria will be broken to bits. |
| (1.00) | Hos 8:8 |
| Israel will be swallowed up among the nations; they will be like a worthless piece of pottery. |
| (1.00) | Hos 9:4 |
| They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the Lord; they will not please him with their sacrifices. Their sacrifices will be like bread eaten while in mourning; all those who eat them will make themselves ritually unclean. For their bread will be only to satisfy their appetite; it will not come into the temple of the Lord. |
| (1.00) | Hos 9:5 |
| So what will you do on the festival day, on the festival days of the Lord? |
| (1.00) | Hos 9:8 |
| The prophet 1 is a watchman 2 over Ephraim 3 on behalf of God, 4 yet traps 5 are laid for him along all of his paths; 6 animosity rages against him in the land 7 of his God. |
| (1.00) | Hos 9:9 |
| They have sunk deep into corruption 1 as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their wrongdoing. He will repay them for their sins. |
| (1.00) | Hos 9:10 |
| When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the wilderness. I viewed your ancestors 1 like an early fig on a fig tree in its first season. Then they came to Baal-Peor and they dedicated themselves to shame – they became as detestable as what they loved. |
| (1.00) | Hos 10:1 |
| Israel was a fertile vine that yielded fruit. As his fruit multiplied, he multiplied altars to Baal. 1 As his land prospered, they adorned the fertility pillars. |
| (1.00) | Hos 10:2 |
| Their heart is slipping; soon they will be punished for their guilt. The Lord 1 will break their altars; he will completely destroy their fertility pillars. |
| (1.00) | Hos 10:4 |
| They 1 utter empty words, 2 taking 3 false oaths and making empty 4 agreements. Therefore legal disputes sprout up like poisonous weeds 5 in the furrows of a plowed field. |
| (1.00) | Hos 10:5 |
| The inhabitants 1 of Samaria will lament 2 over the calf idol 3 of Beth Aven. 4 Its people will mourn over it; its idolatrous priests will wail 5 over it, 6 because its splendor will be taken from them 7 into exile. |
| (1.00) | Hos 10:6 |
| Even the calf idol 1 will be carried to Assyria, as tribute for the great king. 2 Ephraim will be disgraced; Israel will be put to shame because 3 of its wooden idol. 4 |
| (1.00) | Hos 10:10 |
| When I please, 1 I will discipline them; 2 I will gather nations together to attack them, 3 to bind them in chains 4 for their two sins. 5 |
