OUTLINE OF CONTENTS

1

• Hosea’s wife and the children she bears (1-9)

  • Jezreel (4), Lo-ruhamah (6), and Lo-ammi (9)

• Hope of restoration and unity (10, 11)

2

• Unfaithful Israel punished (1-13)

• Restoration to Jehovah as husband (14-23)

  • “You will call me My husband” (16)

3

• Hosea redeems his adulterous wife (1-3)

• Israel to come back to Jehovah (4, 5)

4

• Jehovah’s legal case against Israel (1-8)

  • No knowledge of God in the land (1)

• Israel’s idolatry and promiscuity (9-19)

  • An immoral spirit leads astray (12)

5

• Judgment on Ephraim and Judah (1-15)

6

• A call to return to Jehovah (1-3)

• The people’s fleeting loyal love (4-6)

  • Loyal love better than sacrifice (6)

• The people’s shameful conduct (7-11)

7

• Ephraim’s wickedness described (1-16)

  • No escape from God’s net (12)

8

• Reaping the consequences of idolatry (1-14)

  • Sowing wind, reaping a storm (7)

  • Israel has forgotten his Maker (14)

9

• Ephraim’s sins lead to rejection by God (1-17)

  • Dedication to the shameful god (10)

10

• Israel, a degenerate vine, will be ruined (1-15)

  • Sowing and reaping (12, 13)

11

• God’s love for Israel from his boyhood (1-12)

  • “Out of Egypt I called my son” (1)

12

• Ephraim should return to Jehovah (1-14)

  • Jacob contended with God (3)

  • Jacob wept to get God’s favor (4)

13

• Idolatrous Ephraim forgot Jehovah (1-16)

  • “Where are your stings, O Death?” (14)

14

• An appeal to return to Jehovah (1-3)

  • Offering praise of lips (2)

• Healing of Israel’s unfaithfulness (4-9)