Hosea key verses

Hosea 2:23 “And I will have mercy on No Mercy, and I will say to Not My People, ’You are my people’; and he shall say, ’You are my God.’”

Mercy for the rejected

Hosea 4:6 “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.”

The root of Israel’s ruin

Hosea 6:1 “Come, let us return to the LORD; for he has torn us, that he may heal us.”

The call to return

Hosea 6:6 “For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.”

What God truly desires

Hosea 11:1 “When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.”

God’s fatherly love, fulfilled in Christ

Hosea 11:8 “How can I give you up, O Ephraim?... My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender.”

The wounded, faithful heart of God

Hosea 14:4 “I will heal their apostasy; I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from them.”

The promise of healing and free love