Hosea 1:2-4

Revised Standard Version

The Family of Hosea

² When the Lord first spoke through Hose′a, the Lord said to Hose′a, “Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry, for the land commits great harlotry by forsaking the Lord.” ³ So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Dibla′im, and she conceived and bore him a son.

⁴ And the Lord said to him, “Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.