1The LORD’s word that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
2When the LORD spoke at first by Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking the LORD.”
3So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.
Hosea has 14 chapters in the World English Bible.
Hosea speaks to the northern kingdom, using a broken marriage as the picture of the message.