When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry; for the land commits flagrant harlotry, forsaking the Lord.”

I have also spoken to the prophets,
And I gave numerous visions,
And through the prophets I gave parables.

When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling.
He exalted himself in Israel,
But through Baal he did wrong and died.