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An Alliance (n.) bought from the great powers was, in Hosea's eyes, both reckless policy and a denial of God.
Divine anxiety (n.) sounds in God's helpless question to a people whose love evaporates like morning mist: what am I to do with you?
Divine love (n.) in Hosea wears every face love has: pity, a mother's tenderness, a husband's devotion.
Idolatry (n.) is adultery: not merely a wrong belief but a betrayal, not merely foolish but lewd.
Love of God (n.) in Hosea cannot be uprooted, so even a fallen capital is not the last chapter and doom is spoken only to bring the people home.
Marriage (n.) as the image of God and Israel is one of religion's boldest ideas, short on adventure, long on the sublime.