Hosea 6:1

Superficial Repentance Breeds False Assurance of God’s Forgiveness

6:1 “Come on! Let’s return to the Lord!

He himself has torn us to pieces,

but he will heal us!

He has injured ¹  us,

but he will bandage our wounds!

Hosea 8:7

The Fertility Cultists Will Become Infertile

8:7 They sow the wind,

and so they will reap the whirlwind!

The stalk does not have any standing grain;

it will not produce any flour.

Even if it were to yield grain,

foreigners would swallow it all up.

Hosea 9:12

9:12 Even if they raise their children,

I will take away every last one of them. ² 

Woe to them!

For I will turn away from them.

[6:1]  ¹ tn “has struck”; NRSV “struck down.”

[9:12]  ² tn Heb “I will bereave them from a man”; NRSV “I will bereave them until no one is left.”