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Hosea : Injustice
"I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel." 1:6
God "will not have mercy upon ... the children of whoredoms. For their mother hath played the
harlot." 2:4-5
Hosea buys a wife for 15 pieces of silver and one and a half homers of barley.
3:2
Because of the Israelites' disobedience, the land mourns, and all the animals are dying. 4:3
If you misbehave, God will make your daughters "commit whoredom" and your wife "commit
adultery." 4:13
"Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke." 5:9
"The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water." 5:10
God will tear up Ephraim like a lion so that "in their affliction
they will seek me." 5:14
"I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven." 7:12
"Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them!" 7:13
"They return, but not to the most High ... their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue." 7:16
God will induce miscarriages and kill the children of Ephraim. 9:11-12
"O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts."
9:14
God hates the sinner even more than the sin. 9:15
"I will slay even the beloved fruit of their womb." 9:16
God will punish Israel by "dashing" together mothers and their children.
10:14
The blame for Ephraim's bloody destruction falls on Ephraim, not on God. Even though God is the one who brings it about. 12:14
"I will be thy plagues ... I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes." 13:14
Because the Samaritans chose to worship another deity, God will dash their infants to pieces and
their "women with child shall be ripped up."Â 13:16
