New American Standard Bible 1995

Hosea 1:2-9

2When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “1Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry; for 2the land commits flagrant harlotry, 3forsaking the Lord.” 3So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and 4bore him a son. 4And the Lord said to him, “Name him 5Jezreel; for yet a little while, and 6I will 7punish the house of Jehu for the bloodshed of Jezreel, and 8I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel. 5On that day I will 9break the bow of Israel in the 10valley of Jezreel.”

6Then she conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. And 11the Lord said to him, “Name her 12Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer 13have compassion on the house of Israel, that I would ever forgive them. 7But I will have 14compassion on the house of Judah and 15deliver them by the Lord their God, and will not deliver them by 16bow, sword, battle, horses or horsemen.”

8When she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived and gave birth to a son. 9And 17the Lord said, “Name him 18Lo-ammi, for you are not My people and I am not 19your God.”

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Notes

1. Hosea 1:2 Hos 3:1 ↩
2. Hosea 1:2 Deut 31:16; Jer 3:1; Ezek 23:3-21; Hos 2:5; 5:3 ↩
3. Hosea 1:2 Lit from not following after ↩
4. Hosea 1:3 Ezek 23:4 ↩
5. Hosea 1:4 Hos 2:22 ↩
6. Hosea 1:4 2 Kin 10:11 ↩
7. Hosea 1:4 Lit visit the bloodshed of Jezreel on the house of Jehu ↩
8. Hosea 1:4 2 Kin 15:8-10 ↩
9. Hosea 1:5 Jer 49:35; Ezek 39:3 ↩
10. Hosea 1:5 Josh 17:16; Judg 6:33 ↩
11. Hosea 1:6 Lit He ↩
12. Hosea 1:6 I.e. she has not obtained compassion ↩
13. Hosea 1:6 Hos 2:4 ↩
14. Hosea 1:7 2 Kin 19:29-35; Is 30:18 ↩
15. Hosea 1:7 Jer 25:5, 6; Zech 9:9, 10 ↩
16. Hosea 1:7 Ps 44:3-7; Zech 4:6 ↩
17. Hosea 1:9 Lit He ↩
18. Hosea 1:9 I.e. not my people ↩
19. Hosea 1:9 Lit yours ↩

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