Hosea 1

CHAPTER 1

Hosea’s Wife and Children

¹The word of ¹Yahweh which came to ^aHosea the son of Beeri, in the days of ^bUzziah, ^cJotham, ^dAhaz, and ^eHezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of ^fJeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

²When Yahweh first spoke through Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, “^aGo, take for yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry; for ^bthe land commits flagrant harlotry, ¹forsaking Yahweh.”

³So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and ^agave birth to a son for him.

⁴And Yahweh said to him, “Name him ^aJezreel; for yet a little while, and ^bI will visit the bloodshed of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and ^cI will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.

⁵“And it will be in that day, that I will ^abreak the bow of Israel in the ^bvalley of Jezreel.”

⁶Then she conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. And ¹Yahweh said to him, “Name her ²Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer ^ahave compassion on the house of Israel, that I would ever forgive them.

⁷“But I will have ^acompassion on the house of Judah and ^bsave them by Yahweh their God, and I will not save them by ^cbow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.”

⁸Then she weaned Lo-ruhamah. And she conceived and gave birth to a son.

⁹And ¹Yahweh said, “Name him ²Lo-ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not ³your God.”

¹⁰¹Yet the number of the sons of Israel

Will be like the ^asand of the sea,

Which cannot be measured or numbered;

And it will be that ^bin the place

Where it is said to them,

“You are ^cnot My people,”

It will be said to them,

“You are the ^dsons of the living God.”

¹¹And the ^asons of Judah and the sons of Israel will be ^bgathered together,

And they will set for themselves ^cone head,

And they will go up from the land,

For great will be the day of Jezreel.