101125 Hosea

Hosea 1

1.4 Jezreel...

1.6  No Mercy...

1.8  Not My people...

Hosea 2

2.12  wages ... lovers...  I wouldn't generally think of gifts from lovers as gifts unless...

Hosea 3
3.1 other gods and love cakes of raisins...  How often are we suduced by delicacies?
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Hosea 4
4.10  play the whore...
4.12 left God to play the whore...
4.13  daughters play the whore...
4.14  play the whore...
4.15  play the whore...
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Hosea 5
5.4  Their deeds do not permit them to return to God...   I found this to be a soul searching phrase.  What am I doing that would keep me from turning to God?
5.15  until they acknowledge their guilt and earnestly seek my face...

Hosea 6
6..6  steadfast love and not sacrifice...
6.6  knowledge of God not burn offering...
Anyone, if the carnal, can come and offer a burnt offering sacrifice because it is a physical act that requires not heart.  
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Hosea 7
7.14  They do not cry to me from the heart...   "They cry to the Lord; yet it does not come from the heart, but (כִּי after לֹא) they howl (יְיֵלִילוּ, cf. Ges. §70, 2, note) upon their beds, in unbelieving despair at the distress that has come upon them. What follows points to this. Hithgōrēr, to assemble, to crowd together (Psa_56:7; Psa_59:4; Isa_54:15); here to gather in troops or crowd together for corn and new wine, because their only desire is to fill their belly. Thus they depart from God."  --Keil andDelitsch
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Hosea 8
8.7  sow the wind...