Quotes from Hosea

10 notable lines from Hosea · c. 750 BCE

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.

Hosea 8:7 (KJV)

Quotations follow the King James Version translation (Oxford University Press, 1611) — our recommended edition.

  1. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

    Hosea 4:6 (KJV)

  2. For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

    Hosea 6:6 (KJV)

  3. O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction.

    Hosea 13:14 (KJV)

  4. When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

    Hosea 11:1 (KJV)

  5. And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.

    Hosea 2:19 (KJV)

  6. Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

    Hosea 6:1 (KJV)

  7. Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground.

    Hosea 10:12 (KJV)

  8. How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? ... mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.

    Hosea 11:8 (KJV)

  9. Ephraim is a cake not turned.

    Hosea 7:8 (KJV)