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Individual Retribution

27 The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of humans and the seed of animals.(A)

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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)

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Footnotes

  1. 1.6 That is, not pitied

Then the Lord said, “Name him Lo-ammi,[a] for you are not my people, and I am not your God.”[b]

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  1. 1.9 That is, not my people
  2. 1.9 Heb I am not yours

The Restoration of Israel

10 [a]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.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 1.10 2.1 in Heb

And I will put this third into the fire,
    refine them as one refines silver,
    and test them as gold is tested.
They will call on my name,
    and I will answer them.
I will say, ‘They are my people,’
    and they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.’ ”(A)

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25 As he also says in Hosea,

“Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’
    and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’ ”(A)

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26 “And in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’
    there they shall be called children of the living God.”(A)

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