The Book of
Hosea
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1 The
LORD’s
word that came
to Hosea the
son of Beeri, in
the days of
Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz,
and Hezekiah,
kings of Judah,
and in the
days of Jeroboam
the son of
Joash, king of
Israel.
2 When
the LORD spoke
at first by
Hosea, the LORD
said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself
a wife
of prostitution and
children of unfaithfulness;
for the land
commits great
adultery, forsaking the
LORD.”
3 So
he went and
took Gomer the
daughter of
Diblaim; and she
conceived, and
bore him a
son.
4 The
LORD 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.
5 It
will happen in
that day that
I will break
the bow of
Israel in the
valley of Jezreel.”
6 She
conceived again,
and bore a
daughter.
Then he said
to him, “Call
her name
Lo-Ruhamah,
for I will
no longer have
mercy on the
house of Israel,
that I should
in any way pardon
them.
7 But
I will have
mercy on the
house of Judah,
and will save
them by the
LORD their
God,
and will not
save them by
bow, sword, battle,
horses, or
horsemen.”
8 Now when she
had weaned
Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived,
and bore a
son.
9 He
said, “Call his
name Lo-Ammi,
for you are
not my people,
and I will
not be yours.
10 Yet the number of the
children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be
measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where
it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called
‘sons of the living God.’
11 The children of Judah and the
children of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint
themselves one head, and will go up from the land; for great will be
the day of Jezreel.