Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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The prophet Hosea preached in the northern kingdom of Israel, after the
prophet Amos, during the troubled times before the fall of Samaria in 721
B.C. He was especially concerned about the idolatry of the people and their
faithlessness toward God. Hosea boldly pictured this faithlessness in terms
of his own disastrous marriage to an unfaithful woman. Just as his wife
Gomer turned out to be unfaithful to him, so God's people had deserted the
Lord. For this, judgment would fall on Israel. Yet in the end God's constant
love for his people would prevail, and he would win the nation back to
himself and restore the relationship. This love is expressed in the moving
words: “How can I give you up, Israel? How can I abandon you? . . . My
heart will not let me do it! My love for you is too strong” (11.8).
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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