Hosea 3:1

1 And the Lord said to me, ^p“Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the Lord ^qloves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.”

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Hosea 1:2
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.”

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

Hosea 11:4
I led them with cords of kindness, with the bands of love, and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws, and I bent down to them and fed them.

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