Misery In Elie Wiesel's Hosea

God’s command for Hosea to love an adulterous wife, as God loves Israel, has moved a plethora of male interpreters to theologize at great length about the pain and suffering Hosea must have experienced in his tumultuous marriage. Countless discussions point out how Hosea would have balked at God’s command, yet he overcame his mortification to carry out the divine will.
Hosea’s grief and misery were intended to reflect in a small way the tremendous pathos of God in the face of the people’s betrayal. Hosea’s anguish has been labelled by Christian interpreters as his “cross,” one that finds fulfilment in the cross of Christ. In Hosea’s ordeal, we witness, inevitably, the intersection of divine revelation and human experience, gaining a profound