When the LORD spoke at first by Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, "Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking The LORD."

As he says also in Hosea,"I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people;and her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."Hosea 2:23

Then they will begin to tell the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and tell the hills, 'Cover us.'Hosea 10:8

"It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,'There they will be called 'children of the living God.'"Hosea 1:10

"Death, where is your sting?Hades, where is your victory?"compare Hosea 13:14

But if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,'Hosea 6:6you would not have condemned the guiltless.

and was there until the death of Herod; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, "Out of Egypt I called my son."Hosea 11:1

But you go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,'Hosea 6:6for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

The LORD' s word that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.