the Week of Proper 5 / Ordinary 10
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Hosea 1:9
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Then the Lord said:
He said, "Call his name Lo-Ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.
Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.
And the Lord said, "Call his name Not My People, for you are not my people, and I am not your God."
And the LORD said, "Name him Lo-ammi, because you are not My people, and I am not your God."
The Lord said, "Name him Lo-Ammi, because you are not my people, and I am not your God.
And the LORD said, "Name him Lo-Ammi (not my people), for you are not My people and I am not your God."
Then saide God, Call his name Lo-ammi: for yee are not my people: therefore will I not be yours.
And the LORD said, "Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people and I am not your God."
And Yahweh said, "Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not your God."
And the LORD said, "Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not your God.
Then the Lord said, "Name him Lo-Ammi, because these people are not mine, and I am not their God."
Adonai said, "Name him Lo-‘Ammi [not-my-people], because you are not my people, and I will not be your [God].
and he said, Call his name Lo-ammi; for ye are not my people, and I will not be for you.
Then the Lord said, "Name him Lo-Ammi, because you are not my people, and I am not your God."
Then the LORD said to me, Call his name La-ammi (not my people); for you are not my people and I will not be your God.
The Lord said to Hosea, "Name him ‘Not-My-People,' because the people of Israel are not my people, and I am not their God."
And he said, "Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not my people and I am not your God.
Then He said, Call his name Not My People, for you are not My people, and I will not be for you.
Then sayde he: call his name Lo Ami (that is to saye, not my people.) For why? ye are not my people, therfore will not I be yours.
And Jehovah said, Call his name Lo-ammi; for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.
And the Lord said, Give him the name Lo-ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be your God.
Then sayde God, Call his name Lo-ammi: for yee are not my people, and I will not be your God.
Then sayd he, Call his name Loammi [that is, not my people]: for ye are not my people, therefore I wyll not be your [God.]
And he said, Call his name, Not my people: for ye are not my people, and I am not your God.
And the LORD said, Call his name Lo-ammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.
He said, "Call his name Lo-Ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.
And he seide, Clepe thou his name Not my puple, for ye schulen not be my puple, and Y schal not be youre God.
And [Yahweh] said, Call his name Lo-ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be your [God].
Then said [God], Call his name Lo-ammi: for ye [are] not my people, and I will not be your [God].
Then the Lord said: "Name him ‘Not My People' (Lo-Ammi), because you are not my people and I am not your God."
Then God said: "Call his name Lo-Ammi, [fn] For you are not My people,And I will not be your God.
And the Lord said, "Name him Lo-ammi—‘Not my people'—for Israel is not my people, and I am not their God.
And the Lord said, "Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people and I am not your God.
Then the Lord said, "Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not my people and I am not your God."
Then said he, Call his name Lo-ammi, - for ye are Lo-ammi "No people of mine" , and, I, will not be yours.
And he said: Call his name, Not my people: for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.
And the LORD said, "Call his name Not my people, for you are not my people and I am not your God."
and He saith, `Call his name Lo-Ammi, for ye [are] not My people, and I am not for you;
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
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Loammi: that is, Not my people, Jeremiah 15:1
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 17:6 - the king of Assyria Psalms 69:28 - blotted Psalms 102:22 - General Isaiah 6:9 - Go Isaiah 9:14 - will cut Isaiah 29:17 - Lebanon Isaiah 41:10 - for I am thy God Isaiah 62:4 - shalt no Jeremiah 5:10 - they are not Ezekiel 16:61 - when Daniel 9:26 - and the people Hosea 1:4 - Call Hosea 2:1 - unto Hosea 9:15 - I will drive Zechariah 11:3 - for their Zechariah 11:10 - that Luke 1:13 - thou John 8:54 - ye say Romans 9:26 - And it 2 Corinthians 6:18 - a Father 1 Peter 2:10 - were
Cross-References
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Now the earth was unformed and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters.
And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
And God said: 'Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.'
And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
And God said: 'Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear.' And it was so.
And God said: 'Let the earth put forth grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit-tree bearing fruit after its kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth.' And it was so.
And God blessed them; and God said unto them: 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that creepeth upon the earth.'
And God said: 'Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed--to you it shall be for food;
He stretcheth out the north over the empty space, and hangeth the earth over nothing.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Then said God, call his name Loammi,.... Which Aben Ezra interprets of the children of the ten tribes horn in captivity, who never returned; but it rather signifies the ten tribes themselves, who were carried captive and had this name given them for the reason following:
for ye are not my people; though he had chosen them to be his people above all people, and had distinguished them from others by various blessings and privileges; yet they did not behave as such to him; they did not serve, obey, and worship him, but the calves at Dan and Bethel; and therefore did not deserve the name of his people: hence he says,
and I will not be your or "yours" a; that is, as we supply it, and so Aben Ezra, "your God"; will not behave toward you as such; will not take you under my care and protection, or continue you in your land, and in the enjoyment of the blessings of it; will not be your King, patron, and defender, but give you up into the hands of your enemies. This respects the captivity of the ten tribes by Shalmaneser,
2 Kings 17:6. The Targum is,
"for ye are not my people; because ye do not confirm the words of my law, my word shall not be your help.''
a לא אהיה לכם "non ero vester", Pagninus; "nec ego sum futurus vester", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Call his name Lo-ammi - that is, “not My people.” The name of this third child expresses the last final degree of chastisement. As the “scattering by God” did not involve the being wholly “unpitied;” so neither did the being wholly “unpitied” for the time involve the being wholly rejected, so as to be no more His people. There were corresponding degrees in the actual history of the kingdom of Israel. God withdrew his protection by degrees. Under Jeroboam, in whose reign was this beginning of Hosea’s prophecy, the people was yet outwardly strong. This strength has been thought to be expressed by the sex of the oldest child, that he was a son. On this, followed extreme weakness, full of mutual massacre and horrible cruelty, first, in a long anarchy, then under Zechariah, Shallurn, Menahem, Pekahiah, Pekah, Hosea, within, and through the invasions of Pul, Tiglathpileser, Shalmaneser, kings of Assyria, from without. The sex of the daughter, “Lo Ruhamah, Unpitied,” corresponds with this increasing weakness, and breaking of the spirit. When she was weaned, i. e., when the people were deprived of all consolation and all the spiritual food whereby they had here to been supported, prophecy, teaching, promises, sacrifices, grace, favor, consolation, it became wholly “Lo-ammi, not My people.” As a distinct part of God’s people, it was cast off forever; and yet it became outwardly strong, as the Jews became powerful, and often were the persecutors of the Christians. The same is seen in individuals. God often first chastens them lightly, then more heavily, and brings them down in their iniquities; but if they still harden themselves, He withdraws both His chastisements and His grace, so that the sinner even prospers in this world, but, remaining finally impenitent, is cast off forever.
I will not be your God - Literally “I will not be to you,” or, “for you;” “for you,” by providence; “to you,” by love. The words say the more through their silence. They do not say what God will not be to those who had been His people. They do not say that He will not be their Defender, Nourisher, Saviour, Deliverer, Father, Hope, Refuge; and so they say that He will be none of these, which are all included in the English, “I will not be your God.” For, as God, He is these, and all things, to us. “I will not be to you.” God, by His love, vouchsafes to give all and to take all. He gives Himself wholly to His own, in order to make them wholly His. He makes an exchange with them. As God the Son, by His Incarnation, took the Manhood into God, so, by His Spirit dwelling in them, He makes men gods, “partakers of the Divine Nature” 2 Peter 1:4. They, by His adoption, belong to Him; He, by His promise and gift, belongs to them.
He makes them His; He becomes their’s. This mutual exchange is so often expressed in Holy Scripture, to show how God loveth to give Himself to us, and to make us His; and that where the one is, there is the other; nor can the one be without the other. This was the original covenant with Israel: “I will be your God, and you shall be My people” Leviticus 26:12; Exodus 6:7; and as such, it is often repeated in Jeremiah Jeremiah 11:4-5; Jeremiah 24:7; Jeremiah 30:22; Jeremiah 31:1, Jeremiah 31:33; Jeremiah 32:38 and Ezekiel Ezekiel 11:20; Ezekiel 14:11; Ezekiel 36:28; Ezekiel 37:23, Ezekiel 37:27. Afterward, this is expressed still more affectionately. “I will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be My sons and daughters” 2 Corinthians 6:18. And in Christ the Son, God saith, “I will be his Father, and he shall be My son” 2 Samuel 7:14. God, who saith not this to any out of Christ, nor even to the holy Angels, (as it is written, “Unto which of the Angels said He at any time, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to Me a son?” Hebrews 1:5), saith it to us in Christ. And so, in turn, the Church and each single soul which is His, saith, or rather He saith it in them Song of Solomon 2:16, “My beloved is mine, and I am His,” and more boldly yet, I am my Beloved’s, and my Beloved is mine” Song of Solomon 6:3. Whence also at the holy communion we say, “then we dwell in Christ and Christ in us; we are one with Christ, and Christ with us;” and we pray that “we may evermore dwell in Him, and He in us.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Hosea 1:9. Call his name Lo-ammi — לא עמי Lo-ammi, "Not my people;" for which the reason is immediately given:
Ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.] The word GOD is not added here by any of the ancient versions or MSS.; and yet the construction absolutely requires it, as Houbigant properly observes, who thinks the present reading לא אהיה לכם lo eheyeh lachem, "I will not be to you," a corruption of the word אלחיכם eloheychem, "your God." It is strange that no various reading occurs on this verse in any MS. yet discovered. In two of the oldest of mine there is a blank of half a line left after the last word; and so it is in the Masoretic Bibles, though the sense is not complete; for it is evidently continued in the following verse. Probably God refers to the words, Exodus 3:14: אהיה אשר אהיה I am that I am. I am, אהיה eheyeh, - I shall be, hath sent me unto you. I will not be your eheyeh, i.e., I will not be your God.
