Hosea 1:8-10

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The Birth of Lo-Ammi

⁸ After Gomer had finished nursing Lo-Ruhamah, she became pregnant again and gave birth to a son. ⁹ Then the Lord said, “Name him Lo-Ammi,^[a] because you are not my people, and I am not your God.”

The Lord Speaks to the Nation of Israel

¹⁰ “In the future the number of the people of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, which you cannot measure or count. In the same place that God told them, ‘You are not my people,’ he will call them ‘children of the Living God.’