Hosea 7 exposes Israel’s decline through vivid images—oven, unturned loaf, dove, faulty bow—and summons the people to call on the Lord. The God who remembers intends to heal, longing to redeem as hearts return to him in truth.
Hosea 5 summons priests, people, and palace to face God’s verdict and calls them to seek his face. Its staged discipline—moth, rot, and lion—aims not to destroy but to restore hearts to covenant faithfulness.
Hosea 4 brings God’s lawsuit against Israel: no knowledge of God has hollowed worship and ethics, and the land mourns. The cure begins where the charge lands—return to the Lord, reform teaching and worship, and live under the faithful Shepherd who restores truth and love.
Hosea 3 compresses the gospel arc into five verses: love pays a price, sets healing boundaries, and leads a people to return with reverent joy. The “many days” of deprivation end in trembling before the Lord and his goodness under the promised King.
Hosea 2 moves from lawsuit to love. God frustrates false lovers, speaks tenderly in the wilderness, and betroths his people forever. Names once marked by shame become songs of belonging as creation itself answers the Lord who plants his people in joy.
Belshazzar turns a feast into a courtroom by toasting idols with holy cups. Daniel reads the wall, and that very night the God who numbers days changes a kingdom.
Nebuchadnezzar demands public worship, but three servants answer with “even if not.” The Lord meets them in the fire, and a watching world learns that no other god saves like this.
Ezekiel 23 uses a shocking sister-parable to expose covenant infidelity and its consequences. It also points toward hope: jealous love that ends lewdness and restores true worship.
Ezekiel 22 confronts Jerusalem as a “city of bloodshed,” exposing corruption from palace to pulpit and promising a furnace of refining judgment. The chapter calls communities back to truthful worship, just dealings, and courageous intercession.
Ezekiel 20 reviews Israel’s story to explain God’s judgment and mercy “for the sake of my name.” It ends with a robust promise of regathering and accepted worship on His holy mountain, so that all will know He is the Lord.
Ezekiel 6 targets the land’s idol-sites—mountains, hills, and groves—promising demolition that leads to knowledge of the Lord. Through judgment God preserves a remnant who remember him, grieve their sin, and return, preparing the way for worship restored when his glory returns.
Lamentations 1 teaches the grammar of grief under God: name the pain, confess sin, and cry to the Lord who sees. The chapter’s “no comforter” refrain turns hearts from false help to the only true comfort.
Jeremiah 51 concentrates the Lord’s verdict on Babylon and his care for Zion. This study follows the chapter’s images and promises to show justice and mercy in God’s plan.
Scattered across Egypt, Judeans defend vows to the Queen of Heaven and reject the Lord’s call to repent. Jeremiah answers with a history lesson, an unflinching sentence, and a sign against Pharaoh Hophra so the remnant will know whose word stands.