Hesed Week 11: Hosea
“And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in HESED steadfast love and in mercy.” —Hosea 2:19 ESV
“Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel, for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or HESED steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land;” —Hosea 4:1 ESV
“What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your HESED love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.” —Hosea 6:4 ESV
“For I desire HESED steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.”
—Hosea 6:6 ESV
“Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap HESED steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.” —Hosea 10:12 ESV
“So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to HESED love and justice, and wait continually for your God.” —Hosea 12:6 ESV
1 “The word of the Lord 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.
2 When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.”
3 So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
4 And the Lord said to him, “Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
5 And on that day I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel.”
6 She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the Lord said to him, “Call her name No Mercy, for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all.
7 But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the Lord their God. I will not save them by bow or by sword or by war or by horses or by horsemen.”
8 When she had weaned No Mercy, she conceived and bore a son.
9 And the Lord said, “Call his name Not My People, for you are not my people, and I am not your God.”
10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Children of the living God.”
11And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint for themselves one head. And they shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel.” —Hosea 1:1-11 ESV
6“The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in (HESED)steadfast love and faithfulness,
7keeping (HESED) steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, BUT who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”” —Exodus 34:6-7 ESV
“When I please, I will discipline them, and nations shall be gathered against them when they are bound up for their double iniquity.” —Hosea 10:10 ESV
“I will heal their apostasy; I will love them freely, ….
—Hosea 14:4 ESV“Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the Lord are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.”
—Hosea 14:9 ESV