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The Prophet Hosea

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Yahweh gave Hosea these messages during the years that Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah were kings of Judah, and when Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel.
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When Yahweh spoke for the first time through the prophet Hosea, he said, “Go and marry a prostitute. She will have children because she has given herself to other men. When you marry a prostitute, this will show how my people have been so shamefully unfaithful to me. It will show them how they have left me, their God.”
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So Hosea married Gomer, daughter of Diblaim. She became pregnant and gave birth to a son.
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Yahweh said to Hosea, “Give your baby the name Jezreel, because I will soon punish the family members of King Jehu for the murders that he committed in the city of Jezreel. I will also bring the kingdom of Israel to an end.
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On that day I will destroy the fighting strength of the army of Israel, there in the Valley of Jezreel.”
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Gomer soon became pregnant again, and this time she gave birth to a daughter. Then Yahweh spoke to him, “Give her the name Lo-Ruhamah, which means ‘no mercy,’ because I will no longer have any mercy for the people of Israel, and I will not forgive them for even one sin they have committed.
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But I will have mercy on the people of Judah. I will save them, but not by deadly weapons, the bow, the sword, or battle. I will not save them by armies or by strong horses and those who ride on them. Instead, I, Yahweh myself, will save them.”
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After Gomer had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she became pregnant again and gave birth to a son.
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Yahweh said “Give him the name Lo-Ammi, which means ‘not my people,’ because you, O Israel, are not my people, and I will no longer protect you as your God.
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One day in the future, the people of Israel will be as numerous as the grains of sand by the sea. No one will be able to count them. I have said to Israel, ‘You are not my people,’ but one day I will say to them, ‘You are the people whom I will protect and love.’
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On that day I, Yahweh, will gather all the people of Judah and bring them together with all the people of Israel. They will choose from among themselves a single leader, and they will go out of that land in which they were held as exiles. On that day they will say, ‘Great is the day of Jezreel!’ (Jezreel means, ‘God plants his people in his land.’)
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The LORD’s(a) word that came 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.
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When the LORD spoke at first by Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking the LORD.”
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So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.
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The LORD said to him, “Call his name Jezreel, for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.
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It will happen in that day that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.”
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She conceived again, and bore a daughter. Then he said to him, “Call her name Lo-Ruhamah,(b) for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them.
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But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God,(c) and will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.”
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Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son.
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He said, “Call his name Lo-Ammi,(d) for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.
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Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
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The children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint themselves one head, and will go up from the land; for great will be the day of Jezreel.

Footnotes

(a)1:1 When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, “LORD” or “GOD” is the translation of God’s Proper Name.
(b)1:6 Lo-Ruhamah means “not loved”.
(c)1:7 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).
(d)1:9 Lo-Ammi means “not my people”.
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