Bible Passage For The Day 9-20-2023

The Act of Sin

Hosea 4:6-10

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also will reject you from ministering as My priest.
Since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I Myself also will forget your children.
⁷ The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against Me;
I will change their glory into disgrace.
⁸ They eat the sin of My people
And lift up their soul toward their iniquity.
⁹ And it will be like people, like priest;
So I will punish them for their ways
And cause their deeds to return to them.
¹⁰ They will eat, but not be satisfied;
They will play the harlot, but not break forth in number,
Because they have forsaken Yahweh to keep harlotry.

The Call to Repent

Hosea 14:1-3

Return, O Israel, to Yahweh your God,
For you have stumbled in your iniquity.
² Take words with you and return to Yahweh.
Say to Him, “Forgive all iniquity
And take what is good,
That we may pay in full the fruit of our lips.
³ Assyria will not save us;
We will not ride on horses,
Nor will we say again, ‘Our god,’
To the work of our hands;
For in You the orphan finds compassion.”