Maria Esther Torres
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Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Hosea 14:8 ESV
O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I am like an evergreen cypress; from me comes your fruit.
Feb 14
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Hosea 14:7 ESV
They shall return and dwell beneath my shadow; they shall flourish like the grain; they shall blossom like the vine; their fame shall be like the wine of Lebanon.
Feb 14
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Hosea 14:6 ESV
his shoots shall spread out; his beauty shall be like the olive, and his fragrance like Lebanon.
Feb 14
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Hosea 14:5 ESV
I will be like the dew to Israel; he shall blossom like the lily; he shall take root like the trees of Lebanon;
Feb 14
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Hosea 14:2 ESV
Take with you words and return to the Lord; say to him, "Take away all iniquity; accept what is good, and we will pay with bulls the vows of our lips.
Feb 14
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Hosea 14:1 ESV
Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
Feb 14
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Hosea 13:16 ESV
Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
Feb 14
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Hosea 13:4 ESV
But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior.
Feb 14
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Hosea 13:2 ESV
And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves metal images, idols skillfully made of their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of them, "Those who offer human sacrifice kiss calves!"
Feb 14
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Hosea 13:1 ESV
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel, but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.
Feb 14
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Hosea 11:12 ESV
Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit, but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One.
Feb 14
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Hosea 11:9 ESV
I will not execute my burning anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not a man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath.
Feb 14
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Hosea 11:6 ESV
The sword shall rage against their cities, consume the bars of their gates, and devour them because of their own counsels.
Feb 14
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Hosea 11:5 ESV
They shall not return to the land of Egypt, but Assyria shall be their king, because they have refused to return to me.
Feb 14
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Hosea 11:4 ESV
I led them with cords of kindness, with the bands of love, and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws, and I bent down to them and fed them.
Feb 14
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Hosea 11:3 ESV
Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk; I took them up by their arms, but they did not know that I healed them.
Feb 14
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Hosea 11:2 ESV
The more they were called, the more they went away; they kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning offerings to idols.
Feb 14
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Hosea 10:13 ESV
You have plowed iniquity; you have reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your warriors,
Feb 14
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Hosea 10:6 ESV
The thing itself shall be carried to Assyria as tribute to the great king. Ephraim shall be put to shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his idol.
Feb 14
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Hosea 10:4 ESV
They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
Feb 14