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Hosea's Wife and Children

¹ The word of the LORD which came to ^(C1)Hosea the son of Beeri, during the days of ^(C2)Uzziah, ^(C3)Jotham, ^(C4)Ahaz and ^(C5)Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and during the days of ^(C6)Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

² When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, "^(C1)Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry; for ^(C2)the land commits flagrant harlotry, ^(F1)forsaking the LORD."³ So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and ^(C1)bore him a son.⁴ And the LORD said to him, "Name him ^(C1)Jezreel; for yet a little while, and ^(C2)I will ^(F1)punish the house of Jehu for the bloodshed of Jezreel, and ^(C3)I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.⁵ "On that day I will ^(C1)break the bow of Israel in the ^(C2)valley of Jezreel."

⁶ Then she conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. And ^(F1)the LORD said to him, "Name her ^(F2)Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer ^(C1)have compassion on the house of Israel, that I would ever forgive them.⁷ "But I will have ^(C1)compassion on the house of Judah and ^(C2)deliver them by the LORD their God, and will not deliver them by ^(C3)bow, sword, battle, horses or horsemen."

⁸ When she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived and gave birth to a son.⁹ And ^(F1)the LORD said, "Name him ^(F2)Lo-ammi, for you are not My people and I am not ^(F3)your God."

^10 (F1)Yet the number of the sons of Israel
Will be like the ^(C1)sand of the sea,
Which cannot be measured or numbered;
And ^(C2)in the place
Where it is said to them,
"You are ^(C3)not My people,"
It will be said to them,
"You are the ^(C4)sons of the living God."

¹¹ And the ^(C1)sons of Judah and the sons of Israel will be ^(C2)gathered together,
And they will appoint for themselves ^(C3)one leader,
And they will go up from the land,
For great will be the day of Jezreel.