Hosea 1
The word of the Lord that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, ain the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of bJeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
Hosea’s Wife and Children
2 When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, a“Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have bchildren of whoredom, for cthe land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.” 3 So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
4 And the Lord said to him, “Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while aI will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and bI will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel. 5 And on that day aI will break the bow of Israel bin the Valley of Jezreel.”
6 She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the Lord said to him, a“Call her name No Mercy, for bI will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all. 7 But aI will have mercy on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the Lord their God. I bwill not save them by bow or by sword or by war or by horses or by horsemen.”
8 When she had weaned No Mercy, she conceived and bore a son. 9 And the Lord said, a“Call his name Not My People, for byou are not my people, and I am not your God.”
10 Yet athe number of the children of Israel shall be blike the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. cAnd din the place where it was said to them, e“You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, f“Children of gthe living God.” 11 And athe children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and bthey shall appoint for themselves one head. And they shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
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