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But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.

Verse ConceptsGod, Compassion OfUnreliabilityGod Saves The NeedyGod Will Show MercySalvation By Other ThingsTrust In RelationshipsPatience In Relationshipspity

Contend with your mother. Contend, for she is not my wife, nor am I her husband. And let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts,

Verse ConceptsBreasts, Figurative Usedivorce, in OTChallengesCertificate of divorceMarriage, Between God And His PeopleSinglenessUnfaithfulness, To PeopleWivesAvoid AdulteryNot MarryingMothersbreastsmakeup

And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them. And she shall seek them, but shall not find them. Then she shall say, I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better with me then than now.

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Between God And His PeopleUnion With Christ, Nature OfOvertakingNot FindingPersonal GoodSeeking But Not Finding PeopleFinding Lovelovers

So I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley.

Verse ConceptsCoinageGrainMarketsWeights And Measures, DryBarteringPrice Set On Individuals

There is nothing but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery. They break out, and blood touches blood.

Verse ConceptsAdulterersDebaucheryStealingCrude LanguageNot Swearing OathsThose Who Committed AdulterySwearingadultry

The wind has wrapped her up in its wings, and they shall be put to shame because of their sacrifices.

Verse ConceptsShameWhirlwindsShame Of Idolatry

And the revolters have gone deep in making slaughter, but I am a rebuker of them all.

Verse Conceptsdiscipline, divineSpiritual Depths

They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek LORD, but they shall not find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.

Verse Conceptsethics, incentives towardsLonelinessSin, Effects OfReprobatesNot FindingGod Hiding

When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah [saw] his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb. But he is not able to heal you, nor will he cure you of your wound.

Verse ConceptsUnreliabilityFalse ConfidenceTrusting In Man, Warnings AgainstGentile RulersNo HealingHealing Cancer

But like Adam they have transgressed the covenant. There they have dealt treacherously against me.

Verse ConceptsCovenant breakersParticipation, In SinLike People In CharacterBreaking The CovenantUnfaithful

And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howl upon their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They rebel against me.

Verse ConceptsBedsShortage Of WineLack Of MeaningGashing BodiesNot PrayingPeople Mourning Catastrophe

They return, but not to [him] on high. They are like a deceitful bow. Their rulers shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsFaultsBow And Arrows, Illustrations OfRidicule, Nature OfAccuracyKilled With The Sword

They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made rulers, and I knew it not. They have made themselves idols of their silver and their gold, that they may be cut off.

Verse ConceptsGold

I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law, but they are counted as a strange thing.

Verse ConceptsForeign ThingsThe Law Given To IsraelOld Testament Claims Inspiration

As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it, but LORD does not accept them. He will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins. They shall return to Egypt.

Verse ConceptsGod Remembering SinNot Pleasing God

For Israel has forgotten his maker, and built palaces. And Judah has multiplied fortified cities. But I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the castles thereof.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsForgettingFortified CitiesBuildingGrowth Of EvilDestruction Of HousesBurning CitiesCreation Of All Mankind

They shall not dwell in LORD's land, but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.

Verse ConceptsPurity, Nature OfRepulsive FoodReturning to the oldUnclean Things

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season. But they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that w

Verse ConceptsFig treeBaal Worship, HistoryGrapesBaal Worship, Nature OfAbominations, Idolatry IsDisgustFirst ActionsFinding PeopleThings Like PeopleLoving EvilPotential Of Fruit

Ephraim, just as I have seen Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place, but Ephraim shall bring out his sons to the slayer.

Verse ConceptsKilling Sons And DaughtersGod's People Planted

And Ephraim is a heifer that is taught, that loves to tread out [the grain]. But I have passed over upon her fair neck. I will set a rider on Ephraim. Judah shall plow. Jacob shall break his clods.

Verse ConceptsThreshingYokesHeifersMetaphorical PloughingNorthern Kingdom Of Israeltrainingbackstabbing

Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them on my arms, but they did not know that I healed them.

Verse ConceptsArmsEmbracingGod TeachingGod HealsGod's Healing Love

They shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be their king, because they refused to return [to me].

Verse ConceptsempiresImpenitence, Warnings AgainstRepentance, Importance OfAssyria, Prophecies OfNot Returning To GodReturning to the oldGentile Rulers

Ephraim encompasses me around with falsehood, and the house of Israel with deceit, but Judah yet rules with God, and is faithful with the Holy One.

Verse ConceptsDeception In Fallen Human NatureThose Who DeceivedGod's FaithfulnessLying And Deceit

But I am LORD thy God from the land of Egypt. I will yet again make thee to dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feast.

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Acts Of In OtI Will Be Their God

When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, but when he offended in Baal, he died.

Verse ConceptsBaal Worship, HistoryTremblingSpiritually DeadFollowers Of Baal

Yet I am LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shall know no god but me, and besides me there is no savior.

Verse ConceptsGod, As SaviorGod, As RedeemerFreedom, Acts Of In OtNo Other Is GodNo Other Acts Like GodI Will Be Their God

Who is wise, that he may understand these things, prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them. But transgressors shall fall therein.

Verse ConceptsDiscernment, Nature OfOrthodoxy, In OtRighteousness, Of BelieversStumblingWisdom, Human ImportanceWisdom, Human NatureDownfallValuing KnowledgeDiscernment