Hosea
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Injustice in Hosea

  1. God "will not have mercy upon ... the children of whoredoms. For their mother hath played the harlot." 2:4-5

  2. Hosea buys a wife for 15 pieces of silver and one and a half homers of barley. 3:2

  3. If you misbehave, God will make your daughters "commit whoredom" and your wife "commit adultery." 4:13

  4. God will tear up Ephraim like a lion so that "in their affliction they will seek me." 5:14

  5. "Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them!" 7:13

  6. For ignoring God "their princes shall fall by the sword." 7:16

  7. God will induce miscarriages and kill the children of Ephraim. 9:11-12

  8. "O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts." 9:14

  9. God hates the sinner even more than the sin. 9:15

  10. "I will slay even the beloved fruit of their womb." 9:16

  11. God will punish Israel by "dashing" together mothers and their children. 10:14

  12. The blame for Ephraim's bloody destruction falls on Ephraim, not on God. Even though God is the one who brings it about. 12:14

  13. Because the Samaritans chose to worship another deity, God will dash their infants to pieces and their "women with child shall be ripped up." 13:16