Hosea 4 
Titles for Pericopes/Passages in Hosea:
| Symbols of Sin and Judgment: The Prostitute and Her Children |
| The Restoration of Israel |
| Idolatrous Israel Will Be Punished Like a Prostitute |
| The Lord's Discipline Will Bring Israel Back |
| Agricultural Fertility Withdrawn from Israel |
| Future Repentance and Restoration of Israel |
| New Covenant Relationship with Repentant Israel |
| Agricultural Fertility Restored to the Repentant Nation |
| An Illustration of God's Love for Idolatrous Israel |
| The Lord's Covenant Lawsuit against the Nation Israel |
| The Lord's Dispute against the Sinful Priesthood |
| Judgment of Pagan Idolatry and Cultic Prostitution |
| Warning to Judah: Do Not Join in Israel's Apostasy! |
| The Shameful Sinners Will Be Brought to Shame |
| Announcement of Sin and Judgment |
| The Futility of Sacrificial Ritual without Moral Obedience |
| The Prophet's Declaration of Judgment |
| The Oppressors of the Helpless Will Be Oppressed |
| The Curse of the Incurable Wound |
| The Lion Will Carry Israel Off Into Exile |
| Superficial Repentance Breeds False Assurance of God's Forgiveness |
| Transitory Faithfulness and Imminent Judgment |
| Indictments Against the Cities of Israel and Judah |
| If Israel Would Repent of Sin, God Would Relent of Judgment |
| Political Intrigue and Conspiracy in the Palace |
| Israel Lacks Discernment and Refuses to Repent |
| Israel Turns to Assyria and Egypt for Help |
| Israel Has Turned Away from the Lord |
| God Will Raise Up the Assyrians to Attack Israel |
| The Political and Cultic Sin of Israel |
| The Fertility Cultists Will Become Infertile |
| The Willful Donkey and the Wanton Harlot |
| Sacrifices Ineffective without Moral Obedience |
| Fertility Cult Festivals Have Intoxicated Israel |
| Assyrian Exile Will Reverse the Egyptian Exodus |
| No Escape for the Israelites This Time! |
| Israel Rejects Hosea's Prophetic Exhortations |
| The Best of Times, the Worst of Times |
| The Fertility Worshipers Will Become Infertile |
| Israel is Guilty of Fertility Cult Worship |
| The Lord Will Punish Israel by Removing Its Kings |
| The Calf Idol and Idolaters of Samaria Will Be Exiled |
| Failure to Learn from the Sin and Judgment of Gibeah |
| Fertility Imagery: Plowing, Sowing, and Reaping |
| Bethel Will Be Destroyed Like Beth Arbel |
| Reversal of the Exodus: Return to Egypt and Exile in Assyria |
| The Divine Dilemma: Judgment or Mercy? |
| God Will Restore the Exiles to Israel |
| God's Lawsuit against Israel: Breach of Covenant |
| Israel Must Return to the God of Jacob |
| The Lord Refutes Israel's False Claim of Innocence |
| Jacob in Aram, Israel in Egypt, and Ephraim in Trouble |
| Baal Worshipers and Calf Worshipers to be Destroyed |
| Well-Fed Israel Will Be Fed to Wild Animals |
| Israel's King Unable to Deliver the Nation |
| Israel's Punishment Will Not Be Withheld Much Longer |
| The Lord Will Not Relent from the Threatened Judgment |
| The Capital of the Northern Empire Will Be Destroyed |
| Prophetic Call to Genuine Repentance |
| Divine Promise to Relent from Judgment and to Restore Blessings |
