'Hosts' in the Bible

“Hear and testify against the house of Jacob,”Declares the Lord God, the God of hosts.

For behold, He who forms mountains and creates the windAnd declares to man what are His thoughts,He who makes dawn into darknessAnd treads on the high places of the earth,The Lord God of hosts is His name.

Seek good and not evil, that you may live;And thus may the Lord God of hosts be with you,Just as you have said!

Hate evil, love good,And establish justice in the gate!Perhaps the Lord God of hostsMay be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts, the Lord,“There is wailing in all the plazas,And in all the streets they say, ‘Alas! Alas!’They also call the farmer to mourningAnd professional mourners to lamentation.

Therefore, I will make you go into exile beyond Damascus,” says the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts.

The Lord God has sworn by Himself, the Lord God of hosts has declared:“I loathe the arrogance of Jacob,And detest his citadels;Therefore I will deliver up the city and all it contains.”

“For behold, I am going to raise up a nation against you,O house of Israel,” declares the Lord God of hosts,“And they will afflict you from the entrance of HamathTo the brook of the Arabah.”

The Lord God of hosts,The One who touches the land so that it melts,And all those who dwell in it mourn,And all of it rises up like the NileAnd subsides like the Nile of Egypt;