From the book of Hosea
Perspective: the prophet Hosea observing God's heart toward wicked Israel
His voice was peculiar, a challenge to emulate
A love I don't even have the words to replicate
Asked to bind myself to an unlovable one
I understood when I became the unloved one
He weeps and mourns like a widowed lover
His bride played the whore and chased another
She diluted every bit of love she had for Him
Yet His response was a promise of reconciliation
For the price of a slave I bought back my wife again
I'm learning love isn't about her worthiness
With a crooked, adulterous heart of sin
She's destroyed by ignorant unfaithfulness
Unguarded and unkept left to engulf in flames
The whore is wrecked by playing a losing game
Lovers rip out her eyes, she still thinks she sees
Yet her faithful husband fights till she's free
Loveless and disengaged, she still goes to His home
But obligation has replaced any love He's owed
Their marriage broke before it really began
How can trust ever be restored again?
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