New American Standard Bible 2020

Hosea 1:2-9

2When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “1Go, take for yourself a wife 2inclined to infidelity, and children of infidelity; for 3the land commits flagrant infidelity, 4abandoning the Lord.” 3So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and 5bore him a son. 4And the Lord said to him, “Name him 6Jezreel; for in just a little while 7I will 8punish the house of Jehu for the bloodshed of Jezreel, and 9I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel. 5On that day I will 10break the bow of Israel in the 11Valley of Jezreel.”

6Then she conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. And 12the Lord said to him, “Name her 13Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer 14take pity on the house of Israel, that I would ever forgive them. 7But I will take 15pity on the house of Judah and 16save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them by 17bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.”

8When she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived and gave birth to a son. 9And 18the Lord said, “Name him 19Lo-ammi, because you are not My people, and I am not 20your God.”

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Notes

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

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