Hosea 3:4-5

3:4 For the Israelites ¹  must live many days without a king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred fertility pillar, without ephod or idols. 3:5 Afterward, the Israelites will turn and seek the Lord their God and their Davidic king. ²  Then they will submit to the Lord in fear and receive his blessings ³  in the future. ⁴ 

Hosea 4:6

4:6 You have destroyed ⁵  my people

by failing to acknowledge me!

Because you refuse to acknowledge me, ⁶ 

I will reject you as my priests.

Because you reject ⁷  the law of your God,

I will reject ⁸  your descendants.

Hosea 9:12

9:12 Even if they raise their children,

I will take away every last one of them. ⁹ 

Woe to them!

For I will turn away from them.

Hosea 10:9

Failure to Learn from the Sin and Judgment of Gibeah

10:9 O Israel, you have sinned since the time ¹⁰  of Gibeah,

and there you have remained.

Did not war overtake the evildoers in Gibeah?

Hosea 10:14

Bethel Will Be Destroyed Like Beth Arbel

10:14 The roar of battle will rise against your people;

all your fortresses will be devastated,

just as Shalman devastated ¹¹  Beth Arbel on the day of battle,

when mothers were dashed to the ground with their children.

[3:4]  ¹ tn Heb “sons of Israel” (so NASB); KJV “children of Israel”; NAB “people of Israel” (likewise in the following verse).

[3:5]  ² tn Heb “David their king”; cf. NCV “the king from David’s family”; TEV “a descendant of David their king”; NLT “David’s descendant, their king.”

[3:5]  ³ tn Heb “his goodness”; NLT “his good gifts.”

[3:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “in the end of the days.” Cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NCV, NLT “in the last days.”

[4:6]  ³ tn Heb “they have destroyed” or “my people are destroyed” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV).

[4:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “Because you reject knowledge”; NLT “because they don’t know me.”

[4:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “have forgotten”; NAB, NIV “have ignored.”

[4:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “forget” (so KJV, NRSV); NLT “forget to bless.”

[9:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “I will bereave them from a man”; NRSV “I will bereave them until no one is left.”

[10:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “days” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[10:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “as the devastation of Shalman.” The genitive noun שַׁלְמַן (shalman, “Shalman”) functions as a subjective genitive: “as Shalman devastated [Beth Arbel].”