Studies in Hosea 1-3

“I will allure her and bring her into the wilderness.\u27\u27 The loving Husband, His heart filled with love divine, leads His apostate wife into the wilderness. The selfsame God that punished her, vv. 8-13, is the God of love, who has loved her with an everlasting love. When she stands stripped of all her beauty and all her wealth, v. 3, destitute, despised, forsaken by her lovers, a miserable woman, not daring to raise her eyes for shame, then I will speak comfortably unto her, speak to her heart, so heavy, so sad