Hosea contrasts God's steadfast hesed with human love, which is variable and unreliable, saying to the people, «Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes away early» (6:4), whereas the first story of Israel as faithless wife culminates with the husband -
God expressing the intent to «take you for my wife in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love, and in mercy» (2:19).
Not exact matches
There were certain things made you unclean: consulting with mediums or wizards, sexuality
expressed outside of
God's design and
intent, consuming blood, vampires and eating rare steaks.
When the wanderers in the wilderness lose faith in their Deliverer and mold a golden calf to worship in
God's place,
God's wrath waxes hot against them and
God expresses to Moses the
intent to consume them utterly (Ex.