Hosea 1

This is the word of God that came to Hosea son of Beeri in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joash, king of Israel.

When God spoke at first through Hosea, he said to him, “Go, take for yourself a wife who is a prostitute. She will have children who are the result of her prostitution. For the land is committing great prostitution by forsaking God.”

So Hosea went and married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

God said to Hosea, “Call his name Jezreel. For in a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the bloodshed at Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.

It will happen on the day that I break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel.”

Gomer conceived again and bore a daughter. Then God said to Hosea, “Call her name Lo-Ruhamah, for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should forgive them at all.

Yet I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and I will save them by myself, God their God. I will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.”

Now after Gomer had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived and bore another son.

Then God said, “Call his name Lo-Ammi, for you are not my people, and I am not your God.

Yet the number of the people of Israel will be like the sand of the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. It will be that where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' it will be said to them, 'You are people of the living God.'

The people of Judah and the people of Israel will be gathered together. They will appoint one leader for themselves, and they will go up from the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.