Hosea 1

The word of God that was to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, {and} Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel. \*

The beginning of {when} God spoke through Hosea. And God said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitutions and children of prostitutions, for prostituting, the land prostitutes {itself} from after God.” \*

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

And God said to him, “Call his name Jezreel, for yet a little {while} and I will visit the bloodshed of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and I will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.

And it will be on that day that I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel.” \*

And she conceived again and bore a daughter. And he said to him, “Call her name Lo Ruhamah, for I will not continue again to have compassion on the house of Israel, but carrying away, I will carry them away.

But the house of Judah I will have compassion on, and I will save them by God their God. And I will not save them by bow and by sword and by battle, by horses, and by horsemen.” \*

And she weaned Lo Ruhamah, and she conceived and bore a son.

And he said, “Call his name Lo Ammi, for you {are} not my people, and I {am} not ‘I am’ for you.” \*

And it will be {that} the number of the sons of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured and cannot be counted. And it will be {that} in the place where it was said to them, “You {are} not my people,” it will be said to them, “Sons of the living God.”

And the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint for themselves one head, and they will arise from the land, for great {is} the day of Jezreel. \*