Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.

Then said God, Call his name [a]Lo-Ammi: for ye are not my people: therefore will I not be yours.

10 Yet the number of the [b]children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor told: and in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 1:9 That is, not my people.
  2. Hosea 1:10 Because they thought that God could not have been true in his promise except he had preserved them, he declareth though they were destroyed, yet the true Israelites, which are the sons of the promise, should be without number, which stand both of the Jews and the Gentiles, Rom. 9:26.

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