Hosea 1:2-4

Complete Jewish Bible

²Adonai’s opening words in speaking to Hoshea were to instruct Hoshea,

“Go, marry a whore,
and have children with this whore;
for the land is engaged in flagrant whoring,
whoring away from Adonai.”

³So he went and married Gomer the daughter of Divlayim, and she conceived and bore him a son. ⁴Adonai said to him, “Call him Yizre‘el, because in only a short time I will punish the house of Yehu for having shed blood at Yizre‘el; I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Isra’el.

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