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Author Archives: Jefferson Vann
the cheap stuff
devotional post # 2120 Hosea 8:8-10 Hos 8:8 Israel is consumed; already they are distributed among the nations like cheap pottery that noone wants. Hos 8:9 Because they have gone up to Assyria, a wild donkey going off on its … Continue reading
best effort
devotional post # 2119 Hosea 8:5-7 Hos 8:5 I have rejected your calf, Samaria. My anger has been kindled against them. How long will they be stay unclean? Hos 8:6 Because it is from Israel; a blacksmith made it; it … Continue reading
self-deception, self destruction
devotional post # 2118 Hosea 8:1-4 Hos 8:1 Put the shofar to your palate! Something like a buzzard flies over the house of Yahveh, because they have passed over my covenant and rebelled against my law. Hos 8:2 To me … Continue reading
wrong turn
devotional post # 2117 Hosea 7:14-16 Hos 7:14 They do not cry out to me from the heart, but they wail upon their couches; for grain and wine they make themselves foreigners; they rebel against me. Hos 7:15 Although I … Continue reading
united we fall
devotional post # 2116 Hosea 7:11-13 Hos 7:11 Ephraim has become like a dove, naive and without sense, calling to Egypt, going to Assyria. Hos 7:12 While they are going, I will spread over them my net; I will bring … Continue reading
denying the mirror image
devotional post # 2115 Hosea 7:8-10 Hos 7:8 Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples; Ephraim is a half-baked cake. Hos 7:9 Foreigners devour his strength, and he does not get it; gray hairs are sprouting on him, and he does … Continue reading
hot hearts
devotional post # 2114 Hosea 7:4-11 Hos 7:4 They are all cheaters; they are like a heated oven whose baker can stop stirring the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened. Hos 7:5 On the day … Continue reading
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today’s entertainment
devotional post # 2113 Hosea 7:1-3 Hos 7:1 I just start to heal Israel, and the crookedness of Ephraim is revealed, and the crimes of Samaria; because they deal falsely; the thief breaks in indoors, and the bandits raid outdoors. … Continue reading
bloody path
devotional post # 2112 Hosea 6:8-11 Hos 6:8 Gilead is a city of criminals, marked out with blood. Hos 6:9 As raiding bands lie in wait for a man, so the priests band together; they murder on the way to … Continue reading
disappearing dew
devotional post # 2111 Hosea 6:4-7 Hos 6:4 What am I going to do with you, Ephraim? What am I going to do with you, Judah? Your covenant loyalty is like a morning cloud, like the dew that disappears early. … Continue reading
