Listen as God Sings to you From Hosea 14

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Today's text from the ESV Study Bible: Hosea 8-14.

I find Hosea's poetry to be most beautiful.

The first three chapters of Hosea describe the indescribable love of a husband toward and adulterous wife.

In chapters 4-13, God, as the righteous attorney and judge lays out his case against Israel, and through the lips of his Prophet Hosea, tells of their impending doom through the armies of Assyria.

However, the last chapter Yahweh again pleads for his bride Israel, "turn from your wicked ways, and I heal you and take you again in my arms.  If you do, then your beauty will be like the olive tree, and I will be to you like the dew."  (my paraphrase)

Here is Hosea 14 put to song by the 1970's group Lamb: