I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; I will again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the appointed feast. – Hosea 12:9 Though Israel enjoyed financial prosperity and fine homes, God’s judgment would bring them into exile and into a life in
The Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord is his memorial name: “So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God.”. – Hosea 12:5-6 Today´s verses remind us of some parts of the story of Jacob. Hosea compares
How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender. I will not execute my burning anger; I will
Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you. – Hosea 10:12 I love today´s verses! We´ve seen in our previous weeks in Hosea that the people of Israel had
“The Lord is in the right, for I have rebelled against his word; but hear, all you peoples, and see my suffering; my young women and my young men have gone into captivity. – Lamentations 1:18 Like any loving father, God wanted to bless His children out of His abundance.
My God will reject them because they have not listened to him; they shall be wanderers among the nations. – Hosea 9:17 In today´s verses, God reviews the history of His relationship with the Jews. You don’t find grapes in the desert, but if you did, it would thrill you.
They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity; he will punish their sins. – Hosea 9:9 Have you ever seen those selfies taken seconds before a disaster? Like when there´s someone on a boat taking a selfie and, behind that person, you
What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory – Romans 9:22-23 “They made
Yet he, being compassionate, atoned for their iniquity and did not destroy them; he restrained his anger often and did not stir up all his wrath. – Psalm 78:38 Israel saw their problem, but not their sin. When God’s hand is against man, he easily sees he has a problem
Nevertheless, he looked upon their distress, when he heard their cry. For their sake he remembered his covenant, and relented according to the abundance of his steadfast love. – Psalm 106:44-45 Verse 11 of today’s reading compares Ephraim (Israel) with a dove, silly and without sense. The reason for this