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When Yahweh spoke at first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking Yahweh.”

So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.

Yahweh said to him, “Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease. It will happen in that day that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.”

She conceived again, and bore a daughter.

Then he said to him, “Call her name Lo-Ruhamah[a]; for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them. But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by Yahweh their God,[b] and will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.”

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

He said, “Call his name Lo-Ammi[c]; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:6 Lo-Ruhamah means “not loved”.
  2. 1:7 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).
  3. 1:9 Lo-Ammi means “not my people”.