| Chapter | Verse/s | Verse Summary |
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| 1. | (1-3) | Go take unto thee a wife of whoredoms |
| (4-5) | I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the household of Jehu | |
| (6) | I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel | |
| (7) | I will have mercy upon the house of Judah | |
| (8-9) | For ye are not my people and I will not be your God | |
| (10-11) | In the place where it was said ye are not my people |
| 2. | (1) | Say unto your brethren ... and to your sisters |
| (2-8) | Plead with your mother, plead for she is not my wife | |
| (9-17) | None shall deliver her out of mine hand | |
| (18-23) | I will say to them which were not my people thou art my people |
| 3. | (1-3) | Love a woman beloved of her friend yet an adulteress |
| (4-5) | The children of Israel shall abide many days without a king |
| 4. | (1-5) | The Lord had a controversy with the inhabitants of the land |
| (6-12) | My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge | |
| (13-14) | The people that doth not understand shall fall | |
| (15-19) | The shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices |
| 5. | (1-7) | The have dealt treacherously against the lord |
| (8-12) | I will pour out my wrath upon them like water | |
| (13-15) | In their affliction they will seek me early |
| 6. | (1-3) | Come and let us return unto the Lord |
| (4-5) | I hewed them by the prophets, slain then by the words of my mouth | |
| (6-7) | I desired mercy and not sacrifice | |
| (8-10) | I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel | |
| (11) | O Judah he hath set a harvest for thee |
| 7. | (1-2) | They consider not in their hears, I remember all their wickedness |
| (3-7) | They make the king glad with their wickedness | |
| (8-10) | Ephraim is a cake not turned | |
| (11-16) | They have not cried unto me with their heart |
| 8. | (1-7) | The have sown the wind ... they shall reap the whirlwind |
| (8-14) | For Israel hath forgotten his maker |
| 9. | (1-3) | Ephraim shall return to Egypt, eat unclean things in Assyria |
| (4-7) | They are gone because of destruction | |
| (8-9) | They have deeply corrupted themselves | |
| (10-17) | God will cast them away because they did not hearken to him |
| 10. | (1-2) | Their heart id divided, now shall they be found faulty |
| (3-4) | Judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of a field | |
| (5-8) | As for Samaria her king is cut off | |
| (9-11) | It is in my desire that I should chastise them | |
| (12-15) | Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy |
| 11. | (1-4) | When Israel was a child then I loved him |
| (5-6) | But the Assyrian shall be his king | |
| (7-9) | My people are bent to backsliding from me | |
| (10-11) | they shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt | |
| (12) | Ephraim compasseth me about with lies |
| 12. | (1) | Ephraim .... daiuly7 increaseth lies and desolation |
| (2-6) | The Lord hath also a controversy with Jacob | |
| (7-8) | The balances of deceit are in his hand | |
| (9-14) | I also have spoken by the prophets, multiplied visions |
| 13. | (1-3) | But when he offended in Baal he died |
| (4-6) | Therefore have they forgotten me | |
| (7-8) | There will I devour them like a lion | |
| (9-11) | Israel thou hast destroyed thyself, in me is thine help | |
| (12-16) | The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up |
| 14. | (1-3) | O Israel return unto the Lord thy God |
| (4-7) | I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely | |
| (8-9) | The ways of the Lord are right |