² When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “^(A)Go, take for yourself a wife ^[a]inclined to infidelity, and children of infidelity; for ^(B)the land commits flagrant infidelity, ^[b]abandoning the Lord.”

³ So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and ^(A)bore him a son.