Chapter Outline for Hosea

1. Hosea Takes Gomer as Wife to Show Israel's Unfaithfulness
2. Israel's Unfaithfulness Condemned; Reconciliation Promised
3. Hosea Redeems His Wife to Show the Lord's Reconciliation to Israel
4. God Pronounces Judgments for Israel's Sins
5. Judgments against the Priests People and Princes for Their Manifold Sins
6. Exhortations to Repent; Israel's Refusal
7. Ephraim's Iniquity
8. Israel Will Reap the Whirlwind
9. The Distress and Captivity of Israel for Their Sins
10. Retribution for Israel's Sin; Exhortation to Repentance
11. The Ingratitude of Israel; God's Mercy; Israel's Sin and Judah's Infidelity
12. Ephraim's Sins Provoke God
13. Ephraim's Idolatry; God's Anger and Judgment
14. Exhortation to Repentance and Promise of God's Blessing