The Family of Hosea

When the Lord began to speak by Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea:

(A)“Go, take yourself a wife of harlotry
And children of harlotry,
For (B)the land has committed great [a]harlotry
By departing from the Lord.”

So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 1:2 Spiritual adultery

And she conceived again and bore a daughter. Then God said to him:

“Call her name [a]Lo-Ruhamah,
(A)For I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel,
[b]But I will utterly take them away.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 1:6 Lit. No-Mercy
  2. Hosea 1:6 Or That I may forgive them at all

Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived and bore a son.

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