Hosea 1:2-4

Modern English Version

Hosea’s Wife and Children

² When the Lord first spoke by Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea: “Go, take for yourself a wife of harlotry and children of harlotry, for the land has committed great harlotry, departing from the Lord.” ³ So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim as a wife. She conceived, and bore him a son.

⁴ The Lord said to him: “Call his name Jezreel,^[a] for in a little while, I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and will bring to an end the kingdom of the house of Israel.