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highlighted Hosea 4:12 NLT
They ask a piece of wood for advice! They think a stick can tell them the future! Longing after idols has made them foolish. They have played the prostitute, serving other gods and deserting their God.
Jun 21
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highlighted Hosea 4:6 NLT
My people are being destroyed because they don’t know me. Since you priests refuse to know me, I refuse to recognize you as my priests. Since you have forgotten the laws of your God, I will forget to bless your children.
Jun 21
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highlighted Hosea 4:5 NLT
So you will stumble in broad daylight, and your false prophets will fall with you in the night. And I will destroy Israel, your mother.
Jun 21
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highlighted Hosea 4:4 NLT
“Don’t point your finger at someone else and try to pass the blame! My complaint, you priests, is with you.
Jun 21
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highlighted Hosea 2:23 NLT
At that time I will plant a crop of Israelites and raise them for myself. I will show love to those I called ‘Not loved.’ And to those I called ‘Not my people,’ I will say, ‘Now you are my people.’ And they will reply, ‘You are our God!’”
Jun 19
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highlighted Hosea 2:22 NLT
Then the earth will answer the thirsty cries of the grain, the grapevines, and the olive trees. And they in turn will answer, ‘Jezreel’—‘God plants!’
Jun 19
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highlighted Hosea 2:21 NLT
“In that day, I will answer,” says the LORD. “I will answer the sky as it pleads for clouds. And the sky will answer the earth with rain.
Jun 19
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highlighted Hosea 2:16 NLT
When that day comes,” says the LORD, “you will call me ‘my husband’ instead of ‘my master.’
Jun 19
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highlighted Hosea 2:8 NLT
She doesn’t realize it was I who gave her everything she has— the grain, the new wine, the olive oil; I even gave her silver and gold. But she gave all my gifts to Baal.
Jun 19
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highlighted Hosea 2:7 NLT
When she runs after her lovers, she won’t be able to catch them. She will search for them but not find them. Then she will think, ‘I might as well return to my husband, for I was better off with him than I am now.’
Jun 19
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highlighted Hosea 1:9 NLT
And the LORD said, “Name him Lo-ammi—‘Not my people’—for Israel is not my people, and I am not their God.
Jun 18
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highlighted Hosea 1:8 NLT
After Gomer had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she again became pregnant and gave birth to a second son.
Jun 18
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highlighted Hosea 1:6 NLT
Soon Gomer became pregnant again and gave birth to a daughter. And the LORD said to Hosea, “Name your daughter Lo-ruhamah—‘Not loved’—for I will no longer show love to the people of Israel or forgive them.
Jun 18
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highlighted Hosea 1:4 NLT
And the LORD said, “Name the child Jezreel, for I am about to punish King Jehu’s dynasty to avenge the murders he committed at Jezreel. In fact, I will bring an end to Israel’s independence.
Jun 18
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highlighted Hosea 1:3 NLT
So Hosea married Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she became pregnant and gave Hosea a son.
Jun 18
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highlighted Hosea 1:2 NLT
When the LORD first began speaking to Israel through Hosea, he said to him, “Go and marry a prostitute, so that some of her children will be conceived in prostitution. This will illustrate how Israel has acted like a prostitute by turning against the LORD and worshiping other gods.”
Jun 18
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highlighted Joel 3:21 NLT
I will pardon my people’s crimes, which I have not yet pardoned; and I, the LORD, will make my home in Jerusalem with my people.”
Jun 16
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highlighted Joel 3:20 NLT
“But Judah will be filled with people forever, and Jerusalem will endure through all generations.
Jun 16
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highlighted Joel 3:19 NLT
But Egypt will become a wasteland and Edom will become a wilderness, because they attacked the people of Judah and killed innocent people in their land.
Jun 16
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highlighted Joel 3:15-18 NLT
The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will no longer shine. The LORD’s voice will roar from Zion and thunder from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth will shake. But the LORD will be a refuge for his people, a strong fortress for the people of Israel. “Then you will know that I, the LORD your God, live in Zion, my holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy forever, and foreign armies will never conquer her again. In that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. Water will fill the streambeds of Judah, and a fountain will burst forth from the LORD’s Temple, watering the arid valley of acacias.
Jun 16