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After Gomer finished nursing Shown No Mercy, she became pregnant again and had another boy.

Eternal One: I want you to name him Not My People,[a] because these people aren’t Mine anymore, and I am not their God.

10 But things won’t always be this way. Someday there’ll be so many people in Israel that they’ll be like the grains of sand at the seashore—too many to count! It shall turn out that in the very place where it was said to them, “You are not My people,” they will be called “Children of the living God.”[b]

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  1. 1:9 Hebrew, Lo-ammi
  2. 1:10 Romans 9:26

After she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah,(A) Gomer had another son. Then the Lord said, “Call him Lo-Ammi (which means “not my people”), for you are not my people, and I am not your God.[a](B)

10 “Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted.(C) In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘children of the living God.’(D)

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  1. Hosea 1:9 Or your I am