Hosea 14:3

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Summary

Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.

We will not

Neither

For

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Bible References

We will not

And he is not to get together a great army of horses for himself, or make the people go back to Egypt to get horses for him: because the Lord has said, You will never again go back that way.

Some put their faith in carriages and some in horses; but we will be strong in the name of the Lord our God.

A horse is a false hope; his great power will not make any man free from danger.

Who make a move to go down into Egypt, without authority from me; who are looking to the strength of Pharaoh for help, and whose hope is in the shade of Egypt.

For the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit: and when the Lord's hand is stretched out, the helper and he who is helped will come down together.

And now, take a chance with my master, the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able to put horsemen on them.

Neither

As for Ephraim, what has he to do with false gods any longer? I have given an answer and I will keep watch over him; I am like a branching fir-tree, from me comes your fruit.

For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and never again will she say their names.

For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.

In that day men will put their images of silver and of gold, which they made for worship, in the keeping of the beasts of the dark places;

So by this will the sin of Jacob be covered, and this is all the fruit of taking away his punishment; when all the stones of the altar are crushed together, so that the wood pillars and the sun-images will not be put up again.

And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean.

And they will no longer make themselves unclean with their images or with their hated things or with any of their sins: but I will give them salvation from all their turning away in which they have done evil, and will make them clean; and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.

And he said to me, Son of man, this is the place where the seat of my power is and the resting-place of my feet, where I will be among the children of Israel for ever: and no longer will the people of Israel make my holy name unclean, they or their kings, by their loose ways and by the dead bodies of their kings;

And it will come about in that day, says the Lord, that I will take away your horses from you, and will give your war-carriages to destruction:

And it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that I will have the names of the images cut off out of the land, and there will be no more memory of them: and I will send all the prophets and the unclean spirit away from the land.

For

Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead.

You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father.

A father to those who have no father, a judge of the widows, is God in his holy place.

The Lord takes care of those who are in a strange land; he gives help to the widow and to the child who has no father; but he sends destruction on the way of sinners.

Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father;

I will not let you be without a friend: I am coming to you.

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So the children of Israel gave up the worship of Baal and Astarte, and became worshippers of the Lord only.

If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours;

In that day a man's heart will be turned to his Maker, and his eyes to the Holy One of Israel.

We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.