Hosea 1:6-10
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6 She conceived again and bore a daughter. Then the Lord said to him, “Name her Lo-ruhamah,[a] for I will no longer have pity on the house of Israel or forgive them.(A) 7 But I will have pity on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the Lord their God; I will not save them by bow or by sword or by war or by horses or by horsemen.”(B)
8 When she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived and bore a son. 9 Then the Lord said, “Name him Lo-ammi,[b] for you are not my people, and I am not your God.”[c]
The Restoration of Israel
10 [d]Yet the number of the people of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which can be neither measured nor numbered, and in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Children of the living God.”(C)
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