Hosea 1:2-9
Tree of Life Version
2 When Adonai first spoke with Hosea, Adonai said to Hosea:
“Go, get yourself a prostitute as a wife
and children with a prostitute!
For the land is an unfaithful prostitute,
far from following after Adonai.”
3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son. 4 Then Adonai said to him:
“Name him Jezreel[a] for in yet a little while
I will visit the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu,
and I will destroy the kingdom of the house of Israel.
5 In that day I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.”
6 Then she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And He said to him:
“Name her Lo-ruhamah[b]—
for no longer will I have compassion on the house of Israel
that I should ever pardon them.
7 But on the house of Judah I will have compassion
and deliver them by Adonai, their God,
yet not by bow, sword or battle,
nor by horses and horsemen.”
8 After she weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived and bore a son. 9 Then He said:
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